I was singing in the bathroom nWhen I was staying at your old housenYou were sleeping in the next room nSo I was keeping my voice downnnAnd I was writing you a song nAbout how it's hard to get alongnThe more you try the faster feelings fadennAnd I looked up and I saw in that mirror on the wall nThat I could write you a hundred songs a daynAnd I could burn through a thousand miles of tapenAnd even if we were smiled upon by fatenThe key is the only thing that would changennFrom the graveyards to the ballrooms nWhere I knew you would never staynOf the laughter and the lightning nAnd the things you never had a chance to saynnThere was anger and affection nAnd I could no longer tell the two apartnAnd I saw you there somewhere in the future nWith new lovers and your same old broken heartnnAnd the sky up above said don't be afraid of love nYou'll spend your whole life wishing you were someone elsenAnd the plants in the yard said don't take everything so hard nThere's no perfection, you're actually doing very wellnnAnd the trees and the moonnThey were pleading with us toonBut we refused to hear nThe things they had to saynnAnd the clouds tried to beg nBut they were ignored and neglected nSo they cried and it rained the whole night throughnAnd I crawled back into bed with youn