We're at the diner down on Fifth and 9th

I've been feeling pretty down

I hear you asking me what's on my mind

I was spacing out

I think "I dream of being someone else"

I say "I'm ordering the tuna melt"

What is this part of me I'm fighting off

That doesn't let me let you in

Is there a part of you that writes me off

For the one I could've been

Our sandwiches our getting cold

I'm self-obsessed and getting old

Lonely knows me well

Only time will tell

I read this book about the civil war

It says we won it day by day

There was no great battle where we killed them all

We just chipped and chipped away

That's how I'm gonna win my fight

I win by staying alive each night

Lonely knows me well

Only time will tell

Only time will tell