Face-To-Face With The Night

(Michael Martin Murphey)

You know you never can out-race

All the mistakes that you've left scattered

They'll blow back in your face

Until the teardrops string your eyes

The worst mistake I ever made

Was thinkin' that it didn't matter

That I could let the memories fade

And cover up my alibis

Chorus:

Now it's no use to pretend

To try to lose myself in small talk

I just can't go back in

To the laughter and the light

Tonight there's something in the wind

That makes me want to hit the sidewalk

And go face-to-face with the night.

Try to hide out in the crowd

While that old jukebox keeps on moaning

But it don't matter just how loud

It can't drown out every sound

Mistakes down in my mind

Confessions that I've been postponing

Hearts I've broken and let down

I've got to face them all sometime.

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