Running On Empty - Jackson Browne

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-o-one I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on Running on, running on empty Running on, running blind Running on, running into the sun But I'm running behind Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive In sixty-nine I was twenty-one and I called the road my own I don't know when that road turned onto the road I'm on Running on, running on empty Running on, running blind Running on, running into the sun But I'm running behind Everyone I know, everywhere I go People need some reason to believe I don't know about anyone but me If it takes all night, that'll be all right If I can get you to smile before I leave Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels I don't know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels I look around for the friends that I used to turn to, to pull me through Looking into their eyes I see them running too Running on, running on empty Running on, running blind Running on, running into the sun But I'm running behind Honey, you really tempt me You know the way you look so kind I'd love to stick around But I'm running behind Running on You know I don't even know what I'm hoping to find Running behind Running into the sun but I'm running behind

Livin' on empty, lovin' on fumes Trying to hold it all together with whiskey and glue Like we've been on pause too long Need to find the reason Livin' on empty, lovin' on fumes When the honeymoon ends, real life moves in You wake up in the mornin', sometimes it's coffee and gin Hard to keep it all runnin' smooth Stuck in that day-to-day groove Livin' on empty, lovin' on fumes Yeah, livin' on empty, lovin' on fumes Trying to hold it all together with whiskey and glue Like we've been on pause too long Need to find the reason Livin' on empty, lovin' on fumes, yeah So you keep on poundin', like a hammer to the stone Yeah, you keep on swingin' 'til the rock is all gone You just do the best you can do And maybe that sky will turn a little blue Livin' on empty, lovin' on fumes Yeah, we're livin' on empty, lovin' on fumes Trying to hold it all together with whiskey and glue Like we've been on pause too long Need to find the reason Livin' on empty, lovin' on fumes, woo You both love each other Lord knows that you do But you're livin' on empty, lovin' on fumes Yeah, you're livin' on empty, lovin' on fumes Trying to hold it all together with whiskey and glue Like we've been on pause too long Need to find the reason Livin' on empty, lovin' on fumes Yeah, livin' on empty and lovin' on fumes Aw, oh, yeah Livin' on That's right

Running on faith One, two, three Lately I've been running on faith What else can a poor boy do? But my world will be right Love comes over me Lately I've been talking in my sleep Can't imagine what I'd have to say Except my world will be right When love comes back, your way I've always been One to take each and every day Seems like by now I'd find a love who'd care, care just for me Then we'd go running on faith All of our dreams would come true And our world would be right When love comes over me and you Well, I've always been One to take each and every day Seems like by now I'd find a love who'd care, care just for me Then we'd go running on faith All of our dreams would come true And our world will be right When love comes over me and you, yes it would Love comes over, over you Love comes over, over you Love comes over you (love comes over you) Love comes over you (all of your dreams will come true) (Stick with love) love comes over you (when love comes over you) Love comes over you (all of your dreams will come true) Love comes over you (when love, when love comes over you) Love comes over you (and all of your dreams will come true) Love comes over you Love comes over you Love comes over you Love comes over you Love comes over you Love comes over you Love comes over you Love comes over you Love comes over you Thank you

How did you get that way? (You don't even hide how you feel) How did it get this way? Make your decision (You gon' regret it the rest of your life) Now there's a consequence You say you're seeing someone else (Who can love you better than me?) I'll leave you two alone Now there's nothing left (You messed up a good, a good thing) So there's no coming home Girl, remember my face (For sure, for sure, for sure) While you're out there on your own I can't tell where your heart is (It's nowhere, it's nowhere to be found) It's not there no more See I don't need you And I don't want to want you If you step out the door I won't wait up for you (Wait up) Girl, remember my face (For sure, for sure, for sure) While you're out there on your own I can't tell where your heart is (It's nowhere, it's nowhere to be found) It's not there no more See I don't need you And I don't want to want you If you step out the door I won't wait up for you (Wait up, wait up)

You wait for the tears to fall but they won't You think you should know what to say but you don't Here at the break of day The world moving on it's way Without her You're sitting there staring at the distance Like you're putting up some kind of resistance But you barely see the dawn It's like this river that you're on Here where the sorrows flow And all you will never know about her Here You're here The city waiking up off in the distance They're all working on some other existence But you don'y quite seem to care It's like you know they're not going anywhere Here where the sorrows flow Here where the questions grow And all you will never know about her You wait for the tears to fall but they won't You think you should know what to say but you don't Here at the break of dawn The world moving on Without her

Down on the boulevard, they take it hard They look at life with such disregard They say it can't be won The way the game is run But if you choose to stay You wind up playing anyway It's okay And though the kids in shock up and down the block The folks are home playing beat the clock Down at the Golden Cup They set the young ones up Under the neon light Selling day for night It's alright Nobody rides for free (nobody, nobody) Nobody gets it like they want it to be (nobody, nobody) Nobody hands you any guarantee (nobody, nobody) Nobody No, nobody, baby The hearts are hard and the times are tough Down on the boulevard, the night's enough And time passes slow (and time passes slow) Between the store front shadows (between the store front shadows) And the streetlights glow Everybody walks right by Like they're safe or something They don't know Nobody knows you (nobody, nobody) Nobody owes you nothin' (nobody, nobody) Nobody shows you what they're thinking (nobody, nobody) Nobody, baby Hey, hey, baby Got to watch the street and keep your feet And be on guard Make it pay, baby It's only time on the boulevard It's like this And it is the way it is (on the boulevard) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, baby (on the boulevard) It's only time on the boulevard

There will be no consolation prize This time the bone is broken clean No baptism, no reprise And no sweet taste of victory All the stars have fallen from the sky And everything else in between Satellites have closed their eyes The moon has gone to sleep Unloved, unloved Unloved, unloved Here I am inside a hotel Choking on a million words I said Cigarettes have burned a hole And dreams are drunk and penniless Here I am inside my father's arms All jagged-bone and whiskey-dry Whisper to me sweetly now And tell me I will never die Unloved, unloved Unloved, unloved Here I am an empty hallway Broken window, rainy night I am nineteen sixty-two And I am ready for a fight People crying hallelujah While the bullet leaves the gun People falling, falling, falling And I don't know where they're falling from Are they Unloved, unloved Unloved, unloved Hoping that the kindness Will lead us past the blindness And not another living soul Will ever have to feel Unloved, unloved Unloved, unloved Unloved, unloved