Paradise
The whole city is sleeping
Not me I'm wide awake
Looking down at the lights
And there's people down there
Living a life
Makes mine look like paradise
I see you standing in the porch light
Sad and waving goodbye
There behind the screen door
On that hot summer night
And me behind the wheel of that old black Ford
The one we drove into the ground
Pedal to the floor
Trying to give it more
Trying to break away from that town
Here we go...
Refrain
We were driving through a rainy night
Your face lit up in the passing car lights
I could see that you were far away
Dreaming of another time and place
That's when it hit me
It's the things you love the most
You end up pushing away
And it ain't the times you lose
It's the dreams coming true
That make you most afraid
The whole word seems so small
From up here high above the streets
Looking down at the lights
And the troubles fade into the night
Like the lights into eternity
The whole city is sleeping
Not me I'm wide awake
Looking down at the lights
And there's people down there
Living a life
Makes mine look like paradise
I see you standing in the porch light
Sad and waving goodbye
There behind the screen door
On that hot summer night
And me behind the wheel of that old black Ford
The one we drove into the ground
Pedal to the floor
Trying to give it more
Trying to break away from that town
Here we go...
Refrain
We were driving through a rainy night
Your face lit up in the passing car lights
I could see that you were far away
Dreaming of another time and place
That's when it hit me
It's the things you love the most
You end up pushing away
And it ain't the times you lose
It's the dreams coming true
That make you most afraid
The whole word seems so small
From up here high above the streets
Looking down at the lights
And the troubles fade into the night
Like the lights into eternity