I'm going to dress up tonight
I'll look real pretty 
For I don't know who
I'll find my own way 
Around this great big city
And I'll sit at a bar 
And I'm gonna have a drink

I'll leave you to revel 
In your youthful yearnings
I know you like to visit them 
From time to time
Like a thief I steal 
The words you write to her
I take them to my heart 
And I wish them to be mine

But this is nothin'
But it ain't nothin'
Oh this is nothin' new
But it ain't nothin'

You long for sweetness
Does mine make you sickly
Or maybe I no longer have 
The sweetness you require
There's nothing sweet 
About a heart so embittered
It's ugly and it's cold 
And tonight it's out for hire

This is nothin' new
But it ain't nothin' here

We live through this 
Day after day
Complacency's a curse
But you just can't escape it
I've arrived at a place 
Where my tolerance gave way
And I struggle to hold 
My head up high