why don't you ask me how long i've been waiting   sat down on the road with the gunshots exploding   i'm waiting for you, in the gloom and the blazing   i'm waiting for you      i sing like a slave, i know i should know better   i've learned all my lessons right down to the letter   and still i go on like this year after year   waiting for miracles and shaking with fear      why don't you answer, why don't you come save me   show me how to use all these things that you gave me   turn me inside out so my bones can save me   turn me inside out      you've come this close, you can come even closer   the gunshots get louder and the world spins faster   and things just get further and further apart   my head from my hands and hands from my heart      one thing that's true is the way that i love him   the earth down below and the sky up above him   and still i go on like this day after day   still i go on like this      now i've said this, i already feel stronger   i can't keep waiting for you any longer   i need you now, not someday when i'm ready   come down on the road, come down on the road      my name, my name   nothing is   nothing is the same   and i won't go back the way i came   my name, my name   nothing is the same