Burning of the Midnight Lamp (Live in Stockholm, Sweden, September 5, 1967)

The morning is dead and the day is too

The step is up here to meet me but the velvet fool

All my loneliness I have felt today

It's a little more than enough to make a man throw himself away

And I continue to burn the midnight lamp alone

Now the smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall

It really doesn't really doesn't bother me to watch at all

It's just the ah ever falling love dust that makes it so hard for me to see

That forgotten earring clear on the floor facing coolly the one at the door

And I continue to burn the midnight lamp alone

Yeah yeah

Loneliness is such a drag

So here I sit to face that same old fire place

Getting' ready for the same old explosion goin' through my mind

Yes soon enough time will tell about the circus in the wishing well

And someone who will buy and sell for me someone who will tow my bail

And I continue to burn the same old lamp alone

Yeah midnight lamp

Can you hear me callin' you

So lonely Gotta blow my mind

Yeah yeah yeah Lonely lonely