Outside Looking In Lyrics - Carpenter Mary-chapin

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 them 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 word 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 

Standing on the borderline, outside looking in