Tell me where you're goin or
What is going wrong
I felt you leavin before
You'd even gone
And hold me now
Or never ever hold me again
No more talk
Can take me away from this pain I'm in

See the moonlight shinin on
Your window pane
See it leave you as
Faithful as it came
Please yourself so you
Don't have to be afraid
Make amends
Or carry on another way

Tell me what you were thinkin
To treat somebody so
The care he took the
Lengths to which he'd go
Coals are hot to walk
Across without your shoes
But in the end
Know that you got nothin to lose


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    I love this song, it's one of my favorites on that album -which is stellar in itself. I first had this song on my ipod but hadn't listened to it. One day in January when I was walking to school for a half-day (about a three mile walk) and I had my ipod on shuffle. This is the last song I heard, at the end of my journey as I reached the school. It really spoke to me because at the time there was a friend of mine that I really cared for and as I listened to this it became clear to me that he wasn't going to ever return those feelings, and that it had all been a waste of time. Having a bedroom window that faces the moon, I've always identified with it. So when I heard the second verse it made me think that I was that moonlight and that I needed to move on. For about a year after that day, I listened to this song every night before I fell asleep. The song doesn't say a lot, as far as number of words, but it really conveys a lot of meaning.

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