And your hands are really shaking something awful
As you light your twenty-seventh cigarette
Oh, how long have you been sitting in the darkness?
You forget
You know, you’re getting really hard to be with
And you’re crying every time you turn around
And you wonder why you cannot pick your head up
Off the ground

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Oh, my crazy baby
Try to hold on tight
Oh, my crazy baby
Don’t put out the light
The light, the light, the light

And they look at you like they don’t speak your language
As you’re living in the bottom of a well
And you swallowed all the awful bloody secrets
That you can’t tell
Oh, you know you ought to get yourself together
But you cannot bear to walk outside the door
Oh, you cannot bear to look into the mirror
Anymore
(Chorus)

And your hands are really shaking something awful
As your worries crawl around inside your clothes
Oh, how long will you be sitting in the darkness?
Heaven knows
(Chorus)

The light, the light, the light
The light, the light, the light