Standing In The Doorway

I'm walking through the summer nights

The jukebox playing low

Yesterday everything was going too fast

Today it's moving too slow.



I got no place left to turn

I got nothing left to burn



Don't know if I saw you

If I would kiss you or kill you

It probably wouldn't matter to you anyhow

You left me standing in the doorway crying

I got nothing to go back to now.



Maybe they'll get me, maybe they won't

But not tonight, and it won't be here

There are things that I could say, but I don't

I know the mercy of God must be near

I've been riding the midnight train

I got ice water in my veins

I would be crazy if I took you back

It would go up against any rule

You left me standing in the doorway crying

Suffering like a fool.



When the last rays of daylight go down

Buddy, you're old no more

I can hear church bells ringing in the yard

I wonder who they're ringing for?



Oh, I know I can't win

But my heart, it just won't give in.



I see nothing to be gained by any explanation

There's no words that need to be said

You left me standing in the doorway crying

Blues wrapped around my head.