Riddles

Verse 1:

A night in the city when everyone sleeps,

Through the abandoned allies and cobblestone streets

There wanders a singer who plays for the ghosts,

The vagabond spirits, and heavenly host

With calloused old fingers and weathered six string

Playing old songs that nobody sings

Chanting his poems to invisible friends

Who listen until his opera ends

And alone in the darkness with quivering hands

He cries like a dog to the moon

He cries like a dog to the moon

Chorus:

And he’s singing his heart out in riddles

For there’s no other possible way

To tell you the things that he’s always been dying to say

Oh you tell him that he’s going crazy

But that statement’s just partially true

He’s just falling to pieces like all the great lovers do

Verse 2:

Whoever thought life would have turned out like this?

Your youth and your innocence sold for a kiss

Love is a wild that no man can tame

And these priceless possessions were lost in that game

Time goes by slowly when isn’t fair

Living each day on the edge of despair

Words won’t express how you’re feeling inside

The bitter emotions, the tears that you’ve cried

So alone by her window with tears in her eyes

She cries like a dog to the moon

She cries like a dog to the moon

Chorus:

And she’s singing her heart out in riddles

For there’s no other possible way

To tell you the things that she’s always been dying to say

Oh you tell her that she’s going crazy

But that statement’s just partially true

She’s just falling to pieces like all the great lovers do

Verse 3:

Thousands and thousands, as far as I see,

Thousands of people who have always believed

That a heart that is broken is better than none

So they bear their misfortune till their time here is done

Call it misjudgment, a weak state of mind,

Reckless behavior, a curse of some kind

They won’t pay attention--they’ve been reassured

They know that their tears and their prayers have been heard

In a glorious choir of bittersweet tone

They cry like a dog to the moon

They cry like a dog to the moon

Chorus:

And they’re singing their heart out in riddles

For there’s no other possible way

To tell you the things that they’ve always been dying to say

Oh you tell ‘em that they’re going crazy

But that statement’s just partially true

They’re just falling to pieces like all the great lovers do

They’re just falling to pieces like all the great lovers do