Rooms Lyrics - Jim Carroll

By jim carroll and steve linsley 

You're passing, 

I hear your shadow through the door 

It's outlined on my shade 

Like a map of some foreign shore 

If I could keep that shadow, 

I could live forever in these 

Rooms, the rooms inside my dreams . . . 

And dreams have kept me in these rooms 

I've never seen her face 

But I've memorized each sound . . . 

The way the wind m eets grace 

When it's shadows pull her gown 

But I could never hear the whispers, 

Voices cannot reach my room 

I live inside my dreams, and dreams 

Have locked me in these rooms 

I have no sense of time, 

Or even night and day. I left my body 

Somewhere, somehow it 

Just got in the way 

I guess I always knew 

These rooms would all lead back to you