Jim Carroll - Rooms lyrics

By Jim Carroll and Steve Linsley

You're passing,

I hear your shadow through the door

It's outlined on my shade

Like a map of some foreign shore

If I could keep that shadow,

I could live forever in these

Rooms, the rooms inside my dreams . . .

And dreams have kept me in these rooms

I've never seen her face

But I've memorized each sound . . .

The way the wind m eets grace

When its shadows pull her gown

But I could never hear the whispers,

Voices cannot reach my room

I live inside my dreams, and dreams

Have locked me in these rooms

I have no sense of time,

Or even night and day. I left my body

Somewhere, somehow it

Just got in the way

I guess I always knew

These rooms would all lead back to you