Gov’t Mule - My Separate Reality lyrics

Children in the playground
Laughing and dancing in the street
All the colors of the rainbow
- wrapped in childlike harmony
Me, I'm not laughing - I see
Things only as they were
When I first needed you - yeah
When I first needed you

Cars passing by - representing my life
I ain't old but I ain't young
Enough to cry like a baby
And I'm so scared but I won't tell
You for fear you'll hate me more
Tough on the outside, tough on
The outside - yeah, tough all over

Coulds go rollin' by as I lay
Floatin' in a stream of semi-consciousness
I'll follow it 'til the end or at least
'til I drown in my separate reality
Sorry there's only room for me
I used to have an angel -
She took care of everything
Yeah, so sometimes we cried -
Maybe more than most, but so what
We shared everything - even some things
We should not have shared
Like my separate reality - now
There's only room for me

I walk among the criminals and
I pray among the saints
And somewhere in between I try to
Scrape off this war paint
It's cold in here in the corner of
My soul - so dark and lonely
Oh but I ain't never gonna let go

Children in the playground - laughing
And dancing in the street
All the colors of the rainbow
- wrapped in childlike harmony
Me, I'm not laughing or dancing - I
See things only as they were
When I first needed you - yeah
When I first needed you

I used to have everything - now
You won't even talk to me
But that's alright
'Cause, I've got a new friend and her
Name is tattooed across my chest
And she won't let me down
- 'cause I ain't never
Never gonna let her in tough on the outside
Tough on the outside - and it's surely tough
In my separate reality - sorry
There's only room for me
In my separate reality - sorry
There's only room for me, for me
Sorry there's only room for me