Rules and regulations and real estate are things I left behind.
Lights are always leading,
silver wings unfolding on a dime
But I won't forget to tell you if I could reconnect the line
I never really knew you but come back I'd like to find the time
Drugs and consequences and Ferris wheels just tick us up and down
Fights were always proving too perfect and the studies for a clown
If I could piece it all together,
well maybe find you through a friend
Last
I heard it was St. Louis but I wish that it was Mandalay again
Come back I'd like to find the time
Plant a seed and raise a little cane
Come back we'll throw a rope around the moon
And pretend that we're in Mandalay again Fuel and inflammation,
our Siamese twins have poisoned everything
Light that left us drowning,
rumor that burned like gasoline
I could have read you like a book but instead I acted dumb and blind
I was younger then, I'm foolish, come back
I'd like to find the time
Plant a seed and raise a little cane
Come back we'll throw a rope around the moon
And pretend that we're in Mandalay again
In Mandalay again
If it wasn't the afterglow of wine
or the chatter of some European girl
I'd have understood that after all these years
There were those who chose to separate our worlds,
separate our worlds
Come back I'd like to find the time
Plant a seed and raise a little cane
Come back we'll throw a rope around the moon
And pretend that we're in Mandalay again
And pretend that we're in Mandalay again
We'll pretend that
we're in Mandalay again