The Fire Inside

There's a hard moon rising

On the streets tonight

There's a reckless feeling in your heart

As you head out tonight

Through the concrete canyons

To the midtown lights

Where the latest neon promises

Are burning bright

Past the open windows

On the darker streets

Where unseen angry voices flash

And children cry

Past the phony posers

With their worn out lines

The tired new money dressed to the nines

The low life dealers with their bad designs

And the dilettantes

With their open minds

You're out on the town

Safe in the crowd

Ready to for the ride

Searching the eyes

Looking for clues

There's no way you can hide

The fire inside

Well, you've been to the clubs

And the discoteques

Where they deal one another

From the bottom of the deck of promises

Where the cautious loners and emotional wrecks

Do an acting stretch as a way to hide the obvious

And the lights go down

And they dance real close

And for one brief instant

They pretend they're safe and warm

And the beat gets louder and the mood is gone

The darkness scatters as the lights flash on

They hold one another just a little too long

And they move apart and then move on

On to the street

On to the next

Safe in the knowledge that they tried

Faking the smile

Hiding the pain

Never satisfied

The fire inside

The fire inside

Now the hour is late and he thinks your asleep

You listen to him dress and you listen to him leave

Like you knew he would

You hear his car pull away in the street

Then you move to the door and you lock it

When he's gone for good

Then you walk to the window and stare at the moon

Riding high and lonesome through a starlit sky

And it comes to you, how it all slips away

Youth and beauty are gone one day

No matter what you dream or feel or say

It ends in dust and disarray

Like the wind on the plains

Sand through the glass

Waves rolling in with the tide

Dreams die hard and we watch them erode

But we cannot be denied

The fire inside

Fire inside

Oh fire inside

Burning you up

Burning you up

Fire inside