The city streets are wet with rain tonight

Taxi drivers swerve from lane to lane

A lonely guitar man playin' down the hall



I tried to call you on the telephone

I left it off the hook

Just to hear it ring

You told me you were better off alone

I never knew that tears could stain



I'm on the roof and I'm starin' at the stars

Lookin' down at all the cars

I can see you

In the window of your favorite corner bar

But to reach you is just too far

And I might as well be on mars



The city seems so old and grey and beat

It closes in and makes me want to suffocate

And you just live across the street

But that's a billion miles away



You've turned my world into a dark and lonely place

Like a planet lost in space, my light is fadin'

I'd cross the universe to be right where you are

But I'm right in your backyard

And I might as well be on mars



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I might as well be on mars

You can't see me

I might as well be the man on the moon

You can't hear me

Oh, can you feel me so close

And yet so far

Baby, I might as well be on mars



Baby, I can't fly

Maybe I should try



I'm on the roof and I'm starin' at the stars

Lookin' down at all lthe cars

I can see you

In the window of your favorite corner bar

But to reach is just too far

And I might as well be on mars



Chorus