Vanishing Virtue Lyrics

In the middle of a mid-Atlantic mess

A beauty with a west coast kind of mind

Dared to believe that all the

Best was yet to come with time,

With all his capacities undefined,

What would become of this love--

The time of her life or a waste of time?

Waste a couple calendars to see

Just where a love life roulette will lead,

Empty the contents of your chest

And leave the rest to me,

I never thought to ask you why

You never had a question,

That's one punctuation mark that I

Specialize in

Woah, oh, oh, where did all my patience go?

Oh, I want to be better, but baby, believe me,

It slipped through the fence with my common sense in tow,

And, I know I'm so impossible

Oh, but I could be lucky, our lips could be touching,

If I could just manage to keep mine closed

Keep mine closed

We sing to remember all the

Very same things that we drink just to forget,

So, let's raise our glasses to

The songs that have not killed us yet,

With this understanding of regret--

A mistake with a lesson pending, then

Why is your song still in my head?

Over and over I say

Woah, oh, oh, where did all my patience go?

Oh, I want to be better, but baby, believe me,

It slipped through the fence with my common sense in tow,

And, I know I'm so impossible

Oh, but I could be lucky, our lips could be touching,

If I could just manage to keep mine closed

What can you do, what can you say

To a conscience on a ten-sentence delay?

You paid me your heart, I gave you change,

So you pay me no mind and walk away,

And I react with a lack of tact,

It's a sad fact that I really got a knack for that,

And I can't take back a single word

So I say, woah, oh, oh, where did all my patience go?

Oh, I want to be better, but baby, believe me,

It slipped through the fence with my common sense in tow,

And, I know I'm so impossible,

Oh, but I could be lucky, our lips could be touching,

If I could just manage to keep mine closed

Keep mine closed

Oh, but I could be lucky, our lips could be touching,

If I could just manage to keep mine....