I knew him as a gentle young mannI cannot say for sure the reasons for his declinenWe watched him fade before our very eyesnAnd years before his timennSurrounded himsef with shiny thingsnFirst night tickets, ermine, pearls upon a stringnAnd disappeared in all the pestilencenThat sudden pleasure bringsnnHe never asks after her anymorenHe made a point of losing her addressnAnd every trinket that she ever touchednHe keeps locked awaynAnd just burns up in the furnace of his chestnnWell I spoke to a man who says he's done it allnAnd the only thing that pleases or excites him nownIs hurting, hurting then hurting some morenThere's someone I want to forget tonightnDon't you want to forget someone too?nI left him, and I can leave you toonnBaby let's go out tonightnIt will all turn out all right I'm surenDon't want to drink at home again tonightnSo let's go outnLet's go out tonightnIt's getting dark earlier nownBut where you are it's just getting lightnWhere you are it will just be getting lightn