My Problem Is You

Jackson Browne · Best of...Live/The Next Voice You Hear: Best Of JB [2003]

To love and get away before the walls have arisen

You've got to be free

But to go on attempting to break into the prison

You'ld have to be me

I wait for the sun to rise over the mountain

I wait for your touch

I wait for your angels to carry me home

But I wait too much

Waiting for you

I have no problem telling right from wrong

Fiction from what's true

No problem telling the dream from the dawn

My problem is you

Waiting here for you



I wanted to live in the realm of the senses

You've got to know how

And for some kinds of pleasure there are no defenses

I know that now

Our love is a crackling ladder of lightning

Our love is a fire

Our love is a wave moving deep in an ocean

Of need and desire

Waiting for you

I have no problem with this crooked world

I play the cards I drew

No problem with the changes life has hurled

My problem is you

Waiting here for you



I need your wonder and I need your light

I need your tender touch to heal the night

I need you laughing and I need you free

And I need to lock you away deep inside of me

Waiting for you



I have no problem telling right from wrong

The way some people do

I know exactly where these arms belong

My problem is you

Waiting here for you



And I don't worry about the ozone layer

Just let those rays come through

When I'm outside I keep my clothes on

My problem is you

Waiting here for you



And I don't worry about Madonna

Or the next thing she might do

And I don't worry about your mamma

My problem is you

Waiting here for you