Veterans on their hands and knees/Nobody's ready for days like these/Wait 'til you come up on the smoking wreck

And you can bundle up your feelings/Hang them in some closet/Until you need them again

So goodbye, so long, the road calls me, dear/And your tears cannot bind me anymore/And farewell to the girl with the sun in her eyes/Can I kiss you? And then I'll be gone

No milk today, it wasn't always so/The company was gay, we turned night into day

A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces/An airline ticket to romantic places/And still my heart has wings/These foolish things remind me of you

I've got a rowdy heart and a broken wing/Restless nights and the strangest dreams/Staring at the sky, begging for some relief

Every gambler knows that the secret to survivin'/Is knowin' what to throw away and knowing what to keep/'Cause every hand's a winner and every hand's a loser/And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep