[Verse 1]
How can you stand the silence
That pervades when we all cry?
How can you watch the violence
That erupts before your eyes?

[Verse 2]
How can you tell us something
Just to keep us hanging on?
Something that just don't mean nothing
When we see it, you are gone

[Pre-Chorus]
Clinging to some other rainbow
While we're standing waiting in the cold
Telling us the same old story
Knowing time is growing old

[Chorus]
That was a wonderful remark
I had my eyes closed in the dark
I sighed a million sighs
I told a million lies
To myself, to myself

[Verse 3]
How can we listen to you
When we know your talk is cheap?
How can we ever question
Why we give more and you keep?
[Verse 4]
How can your empty laughter
Fill a room like ours with joy
When you're only playing with us
Like a child does with a toy?

[Pre-Chorus]
How can we ever feel the freedom
Or the flame lit by the spark?
How can we ever come out even
When reality is stark?

[Chorus]
That was a wonderful remark
I had my eyes closed in the dark (Yeah)
I sighed a million sighs
I told a million lies
To myself, to myself

[Outro]
Baby, to myself
Baby, to myself, to myself
To myself, to myself