image The Time For Miracles Is Past Though you're lying right beside me you're further than the stars, You've been jiggling your goods all day to all the passing cars, I don't need you to forgive me, that's the last thing that I'd ask 'Cos the time for miracles is past .... The summer ended in a rainstorm and the stink of dirty sheets, Not even my Michelangelo body could keep you off the streets And though I walk the paths of righteousness it just gets on your nerves, 'Cos the time for miracles is gone .... And I know about your boyfriend, I saw him walk you home, He wore a barbed-wire necktie and tear-gas cologne, Oh, you're 45 next birthday but you still got it going on, Though the time for miracles is gone .... It's only disappointment keeps me holed up in this room But hell, I swam in disappointment inside my mother's womb, Won't you drive me up the mountain and just let my wheelchair roll, 'Cos the time for miracles is past?.... [ Back ]