From Your Balcony
-written by Jeremy Gloff
-appears on Songs About Stupid People (1997)
THE LYRICS:
From your
balcony
Can you see a face
Somewhere between the ocean
And outer space?
There’s a sudden anger
But I’ll hide it in my eyes
As I color in your picture
In my black and white life…
Too tall
are the towers
That I built too high
Like I built you
Sometimes I might fall down
Somehow you never do
But words are riddles
Not a thing we say is ever clear
If there’s any truth in what I thought
There’ll be a day
When you’re back here…
I can see
why you’d be afraid
Of what I am I know I can be frightening
The only time I got feeling from you
Was to raise my voice and start the fighting
And I never found out why I lack what you need
I can handle rejection
Indifference is what gets to me…
There’s
a lot of noise in my mind
But you don’t hear me
Two feet away there’s still a world between us
You’re never near me
I never give up hope that
I might get through to you…