I think I understand
The reason you won’t stay with me
You think a ring upon your hand
Will solve your insecurity

So go ahead and play your games
If that’s what you must do
Nothing here remains the same
But the way I feel for you

I can watch you walk away
And I know that I’ll get by
And I know just what to say
But honey I can’t tell a lie

So figure out what you must do
I know you think you’re so damn clever
You can marry any time you want
But a lover is forever

I can watch you walk away
And I know that I’ll get by
And I know just what to say
But honey I can’t tell a lie

Figure out what you must do
I know you think you’re so damn clever
You can marry any time you want
But a lover is forever

You can marry any time you want
But a lover is forever

It took a little time
But I guess you finally learned
That promises get broken
And bridges do get burned
You’ve been sittin’ through the ashes
Just tryin’ to find a flame
Holdin’ on to nothin’
You’re a victim of the game

You were standin’ way too close
To see it fall apart
There were things you couldn’t hear
‘Cause you were listenin’ with your heart
You can’t say I didn’t warn you
Now there’s no one else to blame
There’s no one quite as blind
As a victim of the game

And it don’t matter who you are
It treats everyone the same
All you need’s a heart
To be a victim of the game

You know it’s really gettin’ to you
When you take to tellin’ lies
You can try to fool your friends
But you can’t look ’em in the eye
There ain’t no standin’ tall
In the shadow of the shame
When everybody knows
That you’re a victim of the game

And it don’t matter who you are
It treats everyone the same
All you need’s a heart
To be a victim of the game

When I look into your eyes
I can really feel the pain
Starin’ in the mirror
At a victim of the game

I’m catchin’ this south bound train
I’ve had enough of the pouring rain
Chilled to the bone, I have to go
Love was never a friend of mine
The only friend that I have is time
It’s down the track, ain’t lookin’ back
Mexico, O Mexico
I long to see your border town
Mexico, O Mexico
Adios mi corazon
The cars are clickin’ the night along
But all I hear is a heartbreak song
Haunting me, relentlessly
Come the morning and I will stand
On the banks of the Rio Grande
A brand new day, wash those tears away
There’s nothin’ like the feel
Of the steel against the steel
And you can’t forget the crying of the rail
There’s nothin’ like the sight
Of a moonlit desert night
To heal a broken heart that was so frail

I?d put a liittle love note in a bottle throw it off the Bay Street
Bridge
Watch it glide along the willows
I?d run along the bank with the other kids
If that bottle didn?t hang up on the stones
It would ride that river with a will of its own
It?d go underground and come up in the crecek behind

Jackie?s house, Jackie?s house
I?d hang around until Jackie came out
My hands would shake my heart would ache
I didn?t know what is was but I first felt love
Behind Jackie?s house

You could hear a pin drop in that parlor it was horsechair chairs and old
lace
Jackie sat beside me like a statue
The other kids were out playing kids?games
Those funny feelings strage and unknown
They would rise like the river with a will of their own
With the risk I took when I first stole a look into

Jackie?s eyes, Jackie?s eyes
I saw forever like an endless sky
My hands would shake my heart would ache
I didn?t know what is was but I first saw love
Behind Jackie?s eyes

After all this time Jackie?s heart?s still mine
And the love keeps on flowing behind Jackie?s house, oh …
Now our little ones they laugh and run down by the creek in the summer
sun
Jackie?s and me and the years agree
We know what it is, it?s love and it lives here
In Jackie?s house oh and in Jackie?s eyes
Oh in Jackie?s heart and mine