Lyrics of Vandalized

Matt Nathanson

Release date : 01/04/1998

Duration : 0:03:26

Style : Rock

Well, it's late at night.
There's nobody around.
Just the sounds of the cars
Upon the asphalt ground.
It's the waiting time,
When the hours grow still.
I gaze on through the glass
Inside my windowsill.
Though i know that you must be
Somewhere in this world,
In this place where, at birth,
You and i were both hurled,
To think that we once were relating
Is a thing that has almost grown foreign to me.

It's a bad sight,
Such a terrible waste,
To spend your time talking
In such bad taste.
It's the same old line,
Though it's not you i blame.
It's your teachers and television
That you put to shame.
The night's lasting longer
Because i've filled my head
With the things i could have done
And the words i could have said.
But, in truth, i was only spectating
And that's a permanent part of reality.

So many rude lines,
So many petty crimes
And you don't feel a need
To apologize.
Tonight is the time
That you stick in my mind,
But from now on i won't become
Vandalized.

Now the room's started filling
With the dawn's early light
And the end has arrived
Of this long night.
I turn off the television
And i hit the bed
While your shade is still haunting
My ever-vulnerable head.
And there's no use
In trying to compromise
When the kindest things we say are when we tell eachother lies
But it's time i should quit my complaining
And behave with a little more dignity.