I was singing in the bathroom    When I was staying at your old house   You were sleeping in the next room    So I was keeping my voice down      And I was writing you a song    About how it's hard to get along   The more you try the faster feelings fade      And I looked up and I saw in that mirror on the wall    That I could write you a hundred songs a day   And I could burn through a thousand miles of tape   And even if we were smiled upon by fate   The key is the only thing that would change      From the graveyards to the ballrooms    Where I knew you would never stay   Of the laughter and the lightning    And the things you never had a chance to say      There was anger and affection    And I could no longer tell the two apart   And I saw you there somewhere in the future    With new lovers and your same old broken heart      And the sky up above said don't be afraid of love    You'll spend your whole life wishing you were someone else   And the plants in the yard said don't take everything so hard    There's no perfection, you're actually doing very well      And the trees and the moon   They were pleading with us too   But we refused to hear    The things they had to say      And the clouds tried to beg    But they were ignored and neglected    So they cried and it rained the whole night through   And I crawled back into bed with you