Outside Looking In Lyrics by Mary Chapin Carpenter

Outside Looking In Lyrics

    Everywhere i see the signs pointing one direction
    No more twists or crooked turns leaving room for doubt
    Where i used to take the time for quiet and reflection
    Now i only hear the noise of what i am without
    I see the walking hand in hand and my eyes just want to linger
    On those golden wedding bands wrapped around their fingers
    By the time i turn away i feel it once again
    I'm back in this familiar place, outside looking in

    Baby all the tears between us couldn't fill the spaces
    And all the words we grasped at, they just fell away
    I kept waiting on forgiveness to fix the broken places
    But nothing even like it ever came my way
    And tonight i drove around and the street came up before me
    I took a turn and then i found this old house coming toward me
    I heard the sound a heart must make when a memory's caving in
    Oh baby what a hungry place, outside looking in

    It's the hardest kind of need that never knows a reason
    Are we such a lonely breed or just born in a lonely season
    Baby it's all in the eyes; it's where the reckoning begins
    It's where we linger like a sigh; it's where we long to be pulled in
    It's where we learn to say goodbye without saying anything
    Just standing on the borderlines, outside looking in

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