40 Hours (Album Version)

40 Hours (Album Version) - Howie Day

Lately after dark I've been wandering through the park

With the angry words you said wandering through my head

There's nothing I can do to keep from feeling like I blew

The only chance I had to make it better

The shadow on the wall is looking down from 10 feet tall

And I wonder what it sees as I stumble through the streets

To never feel alone seemed written down in stone

But now it's all I can do to try and forget her

40 hours and counting

I could shut my eyes and sleep here

Morning comes and goes and I'm tangled in the throes

Of the stillness of my room and a bandage on my wound

My heart becomes a bird she set free with just a word

And now I'm wishing that I had never met her

40 hours and counting

I could shut my eyes and sleep here

People rushing by out the corner of my eye

A kaleidoscope of blue a mirror broke in two

A thousand little stars and a million little wars

Scattered out across the open desert

40 hours and counting

I shut my eyes and sleep here

My world is set ablaze by a never-ending haze

And you're closer than a tear I see you ever clear

The rush is in the veins and there's nothing else to blame

But every minute every hour every second

40 hours and counting

I shut my eyes and sleep here

Shut my eyes and sleep to dream

Lately after dark I've been wandering through the park

With the angry words you said wandering through my head

There's nothing I can do to keep from feeling like I blew

The only chance I had to make it better