DJ Shadow Give Me Back The Nights lyrics

give me back the nights
give me back the agony of my solitude
the nights i've spent alone
the million endless solitary nights of my life
give me back all the people i desired and never came
give me back your love
the love which was never really given
and even in the lessons which you gave
there was the taking for your surprise
at loving someone more helpless than yourself
give me back the nights

give me back the agony of the years of lonely living
give me back the thousand rejections of my love
give me back the love which i deserved
give me back the time

the lost time and energy and beauty of my youth
wasted in the wait and spilled out in imitation
when nothing was coming
and the waiting the waiting

give me back the nights when we should've lain together
building a great temple of our love

give me back the nights
the nights, the nights, the nights, the nights, the nights

the long, cruel, endless, dead nights