[Verse 1] Neon’s bleeding down the corner of First and Main Another Friday night I’m drowning in cheap champagne I catch you laughing in that booth against the pine Your eyes slide past like you were never once mine So I just sink a little lower in this cracked old leather chair And pretend your hand is tangled in my hair [Chorus] ’Cause I choose to love you in silence Where nobody ever tells me no And I choose to love you in loneliness ’Cause in the dark, you never have to go Yeah, distance is a shield for a breaking heart We never tied the knot, so we never came apart I’ll haunt the shadows where the neon lights grow dim And love you in the quiet where the hurting can’t get in [Verse 2] I stumble outside just to catch some midnight air While a southern gale comes howling off the square I lean my face into it and close my eyes Pretend it’s your whisper under smoky, starry skies They say the wind is wild, but it’s softer than my lips Yeah, it carries you away while my empty fingers slip [Chorus] ’Cause I choose to love you in silence Where nobody ever tells me no And I choose to love you in loneliness ’Cause in the dark, you never have to go Yeah, distance is a shield for a breaking heart We never tied the knot, so we never came apart I’ll haunt the shadows where the neon lights grow dim And love you in the quiet where the hurting can’t get in [Bridge] By three o’clock the jukebox finally quits its crying And Lord knows I’m worn down from all this trying I drive back out to that one-room rental down the road Where I don’t have to share you with the heavy load I lay my head down on that pilled-up cotton bed And fall into the movie playing in my head... [Verse 3] ’Cause when the morning light comes breaking through the windowpane It’ll drag me back to breathing through the hurt and all the pain So let the sun burn out, let the whole wide world descend ’Cause in my dreams tonight, baby, you never have an end [Chorus] Yeah, I choose to love you in silence Where nobody ever tells me no And I choose to love you in loneliness ’Cause in the dark, you never have to go Yeah, distance is a shield for a breaking heart We never tied the knot, so we never came apart I’ll haunt the shadows where the neon lights grow dim And love you in the quiet where the hurting can’t get in [Outro] Yeah, you got no end... Just a whisper on the wind. I’ll hold you in my dreams, darlin’. Ain’t a soul gonna take that.
