Well don't lie to me, don't lie to yourself

We were much too sentimental, baby

to make it in the modern world

And I spent my nights alone, and I rode the wheels off

I simply ain't the first thief, honey, holed up on a cross

And I don't believe that anybody here should cry for me

'Cause they'll never know what it cost you to be whole

But to me you're a dream, a divine mystery

And I'm lonely

Lonely for you only

I'm lonely

Lonely for you only

So come talk to me, I can't see inside your head

There's a bitter beast that comes

to feed on the things we never said

Tell me all the vicious things that no one knows but God

You simply ain't the worst

that I've seen stumbling through the dark

And I'll take it to my grave no matter what they do to me

'Cause they'll never know what it cost you to be whole

But to me you're a dream, a divine mystery

And I'm lonely

Lonely for you only

I'm lonely

Lonely for you only

And maybe someday we'll get used to all this rain

Tumbling like the money through my hands

And maybe they'll call and say, "We made a big mistake"

And you and I will get our wings

'Cause they'll never know what it cost you to be whole

But to me you're a dream, a divine mystery

And I'm lonely (I'm lonely)

Lonely for you only

I'm lonely (I'm lonely)

Lonely for you only

To call me up and take me for a ride

Where troubled lovers run away and bleed for a while

In poems about Jersey girls they knew in another life

Long before you and I were born