You took a part of me that I really miss
  I keep askin' myself how long it can go on like this
  You told yourself a lie - that's alright, mama, I told myself one too
  I've tried to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
    You took the silver, you took the gold
  You left me standin' out in the cold
  People ask about you, I didn't tell them everything I knew
  Well, I've tried to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
    I'm driftin' in and out of dreamless sleep
  Throwin' all my memories in a ditch so deep
  Did so many things I never did intend to do
  Well, I've tried to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
    I need your love so bad, turn your lamp down low
  I need every bit of it for the places that I go
  Sometimes I wonder 'til it's just what it's all coming to
  Well, I've tried to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
    Well, I don't dare close my eyes and I don't dare wink
  Maybe in the next life I'll be able to hear myself think
  Feel like talkin' to somebody but I just don't know who
  Well, I've tried to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
    Yes, the last thing you said before ya hit the street
  Gonna find me a janitor to sweep me off my feet
  I said, "That's all right, mamma, you, you do what you gotta do"
  Well, I've tried to get closer, I'm still a million miles from you.
    Rock me, pretty baby, rock me all at once
  Rock me for a little while, rock me for a couple of months
  And I'll rock you too
  I'm tryin' to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
    Well, there's voices in the night tryin' to be heard
  I'm sittin' here listening to every mind-pollutin' word
  I know plenty of people put me up for a day or two
  Yes, I'm tryin' to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.