Through the Mill Lyrics

Looking around again this smoky place

At the young men who think it's all a game

And the old men who sit alone at the bar

Waiting for you to ask their name

Their sad eyes shine through their smiles

And you can sit a while and say the best

Is always yet to come

But there comes a time where that just isn't true

I stand up and wander over cautiously

To a girl I think I might have seen before

She turns as I approach, studies me thoughtfully

But I am just a man and nothing more

In her eyes I think I see

All the times I tried to be

Someone that I can no longer imagine

And I know I'm not who I once was to you

I drift back to my place among the shadows

She glides back to her place among the crowd

Outside the streets are emptying quietly

Inside the music's playing loud

And every song the band plays

Tells me there's a better way

To love someone who never was in love with you

Tell me, is that really true

You and I may talk and laugh like every night

Knowing that our future's in our hands

Maybe for now, who knows we may be right,

But time can slip through your hands like sand

And each night when the lights go out

We can both forget about the old men

Who always sit alone

But I know they were once like me and you