Contagious   Like the rhythm of a record through my mind   Played slowly   To emphasize the condition of a dead line   So hopeless   Let the record play on and on and on      Chorus:   Can I speak   Can I speak now   Can I speak   Can I speak now   Without a voice to call my own   I’m left to walk these streets alone   Waiting through the afternoon   Again   And time can't get the best of me   Surely I will never be   Waiting through the afternoon   Again      Don’t rush it   ‘Cause I’m not living my one life   Without danger   The stakes it takes making what we make (giving up to the page)   And so I’m left waiting   Let the record play on and on and on      Chorus      The afternoon again   I have to walk the streets alone   Without a voice to call my own   Afternoon again   And time can't get the best of me    Can't get   And I live on   Waiting   Again      Can I speak   Can I speak now   Without a voice to call my own   I’m left to walk these streets alone   Waiting through the afternoon   Again   And time can't get the best of me   Surely I will never be   Waiting through the afternoon   Again   Again