Rookwood

Looking out the window of my mother's room
Darkness all around as I dream of you
Waiting for something that never begins
Filled with a feeling that has no end
When my heart is so far away
Don't know why I'm here but I gotta stay
I was so young, filled with dread
How I joked that I was better off dead
Lights out on the street tonight
Broken lamps and a cold damp home
Only good thing to come is now I know
How to live better than I ever learnt
So many sleepless nights in my bed
Switching sides doesn't switch your head
This house is dead nature, dead, dead nature
Still to the bone, still to the bone
Tonight, there's a darkness over town
And it sings your name to me
Sings your name to me
Stuck in a place where you gotta learn
How to look in when the mirrors are turned
Only way out is through the valley of pain
No quick road to the breaker of chains
You grow up with an empty bag
Fills to the brim, fills to the brim
You grow up with a choice in your hands
Where to begin? Where to begin?
Tonight, there's a darkness over town
And it sings your name to me
Sings your name to me
Hold on, to her, you gotta go, gotta go,
gotta go, alright
Tonight, there's a darkness over town
And it sings your name to me
Sings your name to me