Mary Chapin Carpenter - Outside Looking In Lyrics
Everywhere I see the signs pointing one directionNo more twists or crooked turns leaving room for doubtWhere I used to take the time for quiet and reflectionNow I only hear the noise of what I am withoutI see the walking hand in hand and my eyes just want to lingerOn those golden wedding bands wrapped around their fingersBy the time I turn away I feel it once againIm back in this familiar place, outside looking inBaby all the tears between us couldnt fill the spacesAnd all the words we grasped at, they just fell awayI kept waiting on forgiveness to fix the broken placesBut nothing even like it ever came my wayAnd tonight I drove around and the street came up before meI took a turn and then I found this old house coming toward meI heard the sound a heart must make when a memorys caving inOh baby what a hungry place, outside looking inIts the hardest kind of need that never knows a reasonAre we such a lonely breed or just born in a lonely seasonBaby its all in the eyes; its where the reckoning beginsIts where we linger like a sigh; its where we long to be pulled inIts where we learn to say goodbye without saying anythingJust standing on the borderlines, outside looking in
