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 [bad word] 
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, [bad word]  endless, dead nights