I'll Never Know lyrics

I'LL NEVER KNOW

there's a path along the water
under a sky bright with stars
I saw it in a book of pictures
lying open on a table in a room with people waiting

in the surf in the shallows
the underwater creatures are calling to each other
I'm in an elevator checking my reflection
before I step through the doors

it's looking more and more
like a sucker's bet I'll ever know
I'll never know who the joke's on
I'll never know

I have a hammer it used to be my father's
it's rusted and small
what I endow with meaning what I value
to anyone but me may not mean anything at all

there's a place nobody knows
it's the dirtiest secret in town
I can't tell you the name I would never dare speak it
but swear on your heart and I'll write it down

it's looking more and more
like a sucker's bet I'll ever know
I'll never know who the joke's on
I'll never know

the stairs are roped off the stairs are blocked
what's going on upstairs? What's going on at the top?
it's like they said it would be and unlike that too
their insight was limited to what they'd been through

I walk along the lakebed
the water turned to steam
I want to feel something or stop feeling something
I lay my head on the pillow and dream

it's looking more and more
like a sucker's bet I'll ever know
I'll never know who the joke's on
I'll never know