Lyrics Graham Parker

Graham Parker

Dark Side Of The Bright Lights

The party may wind down the bottles are strewn and broken

The games are all played out like useless tokens

The videos are scattered their messages have screened and clattered

Discussing the actors as if they mattered they mattered

And I'm not gaining any ground here

No I'm not listening you do not care

We are not driving in the same gear

It always feels the same on the dark side of the bright lights

Getting turned off again

The night's conversation might never really end up anywhere

The big mouths just open and close on fingers

The shal-la-la-la-low laughs they turned out to be hard reminders

And we only heard them playing behind us behind us

And I'm not gaining any ground here

You are not listening you do not care

You are not whispering in the right ear

It always feels the same on the dark side of the bright lights

Getting turned off again

I can't stand it I can't stand it

I can't even gain your attention

And I'm not gaining any ground here

No I'm not listening you do not care

We are not driving in the same gear

It always feels the same on the dark side of the bright lights

On the dark side of the bright lights

On the dark side of the bright lights

Getting turned off again (3x)