The morning is dead
  And the day is, too
  There's nothing left here to meet me
  But the velvet moon
  All my loneliness I have felt today
  It's like a little more than enough
  To make a man throw himself away
    And I continue
  To burn the midnight lamp
  Alone
    Now the smiling portrait of you
  Is still hangin' on my frowning wall
  It really doesn't, really doesn't bother me too much at all
  It's just the ever falling dust
  That makes it so hard for me to see
  That forgotten earring layin' on the floor
  Facing coldly towards the door
    I continue
  To burn the midnight lamp
  Lord, alone
    Loneliness is such a drag
    So here I sit to face
  That same old fire place
  Gettin' ready for the same old explosion
  Goin' through my mind
  And soon enough time will tell,
  About the circus in the wishing well
  And someone who will buy and sell for me
  Someone to toll my bell
    But I continue
  To burn the midnight lamp
  Lord, alone
  Darlin' can't ya hear me callin' you?
  So lonely
  Gonna have to blow my mind
  Lonely