Desire Avenue

I think it's

I feel my face crack again into that stranger's smile

But you couldn't get me out
But you couldn't get alive (not sure what makes more sense - a life or alive - and try to whisper a v and it sounds like an f)

I can only make out parts of the lyrics to this song, and probably got some of it wrong even, but maybe together we can build a whole?
Here goes my attempt (the lyrics are somewhat clearer towards the end):

nights here are cold
( ) walk ( )
( )
( ) never ( )

some kind of drag wire
inside ( )
be ...