rules and regulations and real estate are things i ve left behind fights are always leaving silver wings unfolding on a dime but i won t forget to tell you if i could only reconnect the line i never really knew you but come back i d like to find the time drugs and consequences and ferris wheels just took us up and down fights were always brewing two perfect understudies for a clown if i could piece it all together or maybe find you through a friend last i heard it was st louis but i wish that it was mandalay again come back i d like to find the time plant a seed and raise a little cain come back we ll throw a rope around the moon and pretend that we re in mandalay again fuel and information are siamese twins who poison everything lies that left us drowing rumor that burned like gasoline i could have read you like a book instead i acted dumb and blind i was younger then and foolish come back i d like to find the time it it wasn t in the afterglow of wine or the chatter of some european girl i d have understood that after all these years there were those who chose to separate our worlds separate our worlds  and pretend that we re in mandalay again we ll pretend that we re in madalay again