You took a part of me that i really miss 
I keep asking myself how long it can go on like this 
You told yourself a lie 
Thats alright mama i told myself one too 
I try to get closer but i'm still a million miles from you 
You took the silver, you took the gold 
You left me standing out in the cold 
People asked about you, i didn't tell them everything i knew 
Well i try to get closer but i'm still a million miles from you 
I'm driftin' in and out of dreamless sleep 
Somehow my memory's in a ditch so deep 
Did so many things i never did intend to do 
And i try to get closer but i'm still a million miles from you 
I need your love so bad, turn your lamp down low 
I need every bit of it for the places that i go 
Sometimes i wonder, tell us just what its all coming to 
Well i try to get closer but i'm still a million miles from you 
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Well i don't dare close my eyes and i don't dare wink 
Maybe in the next life i'll be able to hear myself think 
Feel like talking to somebody but i just don't know who 
Well i try to get closer but i'm still a million miles from you 
Yes the last thing you said before you hit the street 
Gonna find me a janitor to sweep me off my feet 
I said thats alright mama you, you do what you gotta do 
Well i try to get closer i'm still a million miles from you 
Rock me pretty baby rock me all at once, rock me for a little while 
Rock me for a couple of months 
And i'll rock you too 
I try to get closer but i'm still a million miles from you 
Well there's voices in the night trying to be heard 
I'm sittin' here listenin' to every mind-pollutin' word 
I know plenty of people put me up for a day or two 
Yes i try to get closer but i'm still a million miles from you