Nothing New

I'm going to dress up tonight

I'll look real pretty

For I don't know who

I'll find my own way

Around this great big city

And I'll sit at a bar

And I'm gonna have a drink

I'll leave you to revel

In your youthful yearnings

I know you like to visit them

From time to time

Like a thief I steal

The words you write to her

I take them to my heart

And I wish them to be mine

But this is nothin'

But it ain't nothin'

Oh this is nothin' new

But it ain't nothin'

You long for sweetness

Does mine make you sickly

Or maybe I no longer have

The sweetness you require

There's nothing sweet

About a heart so embittered

It's ugly and it's cold

And tonight it's out for hire

This is nothin' new

But it ain't nothin' here

We live through this

Day after day

Complacency's a curse

But you just can't escape it

I've arrived at a place

Where my tolerance gave way

And I struggle to hold

My head up high