The street light crowls into a bare bulb hotel
   Where dead eyes shine there’s a story to tell
   I’ts a life of crime on a bed of stone
   When the devil calls you’re better off alone
  
   And now I’m hiding from the light
   Running from my destiny
   Haunted by a flame
   Lying low livin‘ on a memory
  
   The bugs still bite and the breezes still blow
   Between your dreams right through your clothes
   The days roll by like cars on a train
   And the August sky still looks like rain
  
   Hiding from the light
   Running from my destiny
   Haunted by a flame
   Lying low livin‘ an a memory
  
   Haunted by a flame
   I can’t escape this reverie
   Trying to break away
   Lyin' low livin' an a memory
  
   I’ll be walking behind you
   I’m a face on the wind
   I’ll be watching
   Still paying for my sins
  
   I’m drifting down the river so slow
   As the lights of town are beginning to glow
  
   And now I’m hiding from the light
   Running from my destiny
   Haunted by a flame
   Lying low livin‘ an a memory
  
   Hiding from the light
   I can’t escape this reverie
   Trying to break away
   Lyin‘ low livin‘ an a memory