You took a part of me that I really miss,
I keep asking myself how long it can go on like this.
You told yourself a lie, that's alright, mama, I told myself one too.
I'm trying to get closer, but I'm still a million miles from you.
You took the silver, you took the gold,
You left me standing out in the cold.
People'd ask about you, I didn't tell 'em everything I knew.
Well, I'm trying to get closer, but I'm still a million miles from you.
I'm drifting in and out of dreamless sleep,
Throwing all my memories in a ditch so deep.
Did so many things I never did intend to do.
Well, I'm trying to get closer, but I'm still a million miles from you.
I need your love so bad, turn your lamp down low,
I need every bit of it for the places that I go.
Sometimes I wonder to just––what it's all coming to.
Well, I'm trying to get closer, but I'm still a million miles from you.
Well, I don't dare close my eyes and I don't dare wink,
Maybe in the next life I'll be able to hear myself think.
Feel like talking to somebody, but I just don't know who.
Well, I'm trying to get closer, but I'm still a million miles from you.
Yes, the last thing you said before you hit the street,
"Gonna find me a janitor to sweep me off my feet."
I said, "That's alright, mama, you–you do what you gotta do."
Well, I'm trying to get closer, I'm still a million miles from you.
Rock me, pretty baby, rock me all at once,
Rock me for a little while, rock me for a couple of months,
And I'll rock you too.
I'm trying to get closer, but I'm still a million miles from you.
Well, there's voices in the night trying to be heard,
I'm sitting here listening to every mind-polluting word.
I know plenty of people put me up for a day or two.
Yes, I'm trying to get closer, but I'm still a million miles from you.