Nothing New

I'm going to dress up tonight
 I'll look real pretty
 For I don't know who
 I'll find my own way
 Around this great big city
 And I'll sit at a bar
 And I'm gonna have a drink
 I'll leave you to revel
 In your youthful yearnings
 I know you like to visit them
 From time to time
 Like a thief I steal
 The words you write to her
 I take them to my heart
 And I wish them to be mine
 But this is nothin'
 But it ain't nothin'
 Oh this is nothin' new
 But it ain't nothin'
 You long for sweetness
 Does mine make you sickly
 Or maybe I no longer have
 The sweetness you require
 There's nothing sweet
 About a heart so embittered
 It's ugly and it's cold
 And tonight it's out for hire
 This is nothin' new
 But it ain't nothin' here
 We live through this
 Day after day
 Complacency's a curse
 But you just can't escape it
 I've arrived at a place
 Where my tolerance gave way
 And I struggle to hold
 My head up high