The Fire Inside

<br>There`s a hard moon risin` on the streets tonight<br>There`s a reckless feeling in your heart as you head out tonight<br>Through the concrete canyons to the midtown light<br>Where the latest neon promises are burning bright<br><br>Past the open windows on the darker streets<br>Where unseen angry voices flash and children cry<br>Past the phony posers with their worn out lines<br>The tired new money dressed to the nines<br>The low life dealers with their bad designs<br>And the dilettantes with their open minds<br><br>You`re out on the town, safe in the crowd<br>Ready to go for the ride<br>Searching the eyes, looking for clues<br>There`s no way you can hide<br>The fire inside<br><br>Well you`ve been to the clubs and the discotheques<br>Where they deal one another from the bottom of a deck of promises<br>Where the cautious loners and emotional wrecks<br>Do an acting stretch as a way to hide the obvious<br>And the lights go down and they dance real close<br>And for one brief instant they pretend they`re safe and warm<br><br>Then the beat gets louder and the mood is gone<br>The darkness scatters as the lights flash on<br>They hold one another just a little too long<br>And they move apart and then move on<br><br>On to the street, on to the next<br>Safe in the knowledge that they tried<br>Faking the smile, hiding the pain<br>Never satisfied<br>The fire inside<br>Fire inside<br><br>Now the hour is late and he thinks you`re asleep<br>You listen to him dress and you listen to him leave<br> like you knew he would<br>You hear his car pull away in the street<br>Then you move to the door and you lock it when<br> he`s gone for good<br><br>Then you walk to the window and stare at the moon<br>Riding high and lonesome through a starlit sky<br>And it comes to you how it all slips away<br>Youth and beauty are gone one day<br>No matter what you dream or feel or say<br>It ends in dust and disarray<br><br>Like wind on the plains, sand through the glass<br>Waves rolling in with the tide<br>Dreams die hard and we watch them erode<br>But we cannot be denied<br>The fire inside