We had our day in the sun And it was a good day You thought maybe I was the one And I felt the same way But now the walls are crumbling down around us And there ain't nothing to say The incomprehensible is happening You're running away One mistake and you lose all faith in me One bad slip and you end the whole damn trip I'm sensing your frustration And I'm gathering you doubt me If it's any consolation It ain't easy to say, but hey Maybe you're better off without me. You write in indelible ink Words filled with hatred Without ever stopping to think You lose something sacred But you were just reacting to my ignorance I guess I put it there on purpose All you ever asked of me was to be honest Instead I just got nervous One mistake and you lose your faith in me One bad slip and you end the whole damn trip I'm sensing your frustration And I'm gathering you doubt me If it's any consolation It ain't easy to say, but hey Maybe you're better off without me.

Tears stream down your face as you Tell me it's okay but I Know I'm tearing us apart Empty promises I've made Break your heart like hand grenades I can't stay This has to end I can't let you down again Cause you deserve the world But I can never give it Even though it's hard to say I wish you never knew about me Cause I know you're better off without me So go find somebody Who's gonna love you Better than I ever can I wish you never knew about me Cause I know you're better off without me All the words I should have said Selfish me kept in my head Made you feel so hard to love But it was me who wasn't good enough You deserve the world But I can never give it Even though it's hard to say I wish you never knew about me Cause I know you're better off without me So go find somebody Who's gonna love you Better than I ever can I wish you never knew about me Cause I know you're better off without me You're better off I wish you never knew about me Cause I know you're better off without me And loving me is all you've ever known But darling you'd be so much better on your own Cause you deserve the world But I can never give it Even though it's hard to say I wish you never knew about me Cause I know you're better off without me So go find somebody Who's gonna love you Better than I ever can I wish you never knew about me Cause I know you're better off without me

Red Pants and the Sugarman in the Temple Street gloom Drinkin' Chivas Regal in a four dollar room Just another dead soldier in a powder blue night Sugarman says, "Baby, everything's alright" Goin' downtown, downtown, town Goin' down, downtown Montclaire de Havelin doin' the St.Vitus dance Lookin' for someone to chop the lumber in his pants How am I gonna unload all this ice and all this mink? All the traffic in the streets but it's so hard to think Goin' downtown, downtown, town Goin' down, downtown Frankie wearin' lipstick, Pierre Cardin I swear to God, I seen him holdin' hands with Jimmy Bond Sally's high on crank and hungry for some sweets Fem in the sheets but she butch in the streets Goin' downtown, downtown, town Goin' down, downtown It's cool of the evening, the sun's goin' down Want to hold you in my arms, I want to push you around I want to break your bottle and spill out all your charms Come on baby, we'll set off all the burglar alarms Goin' downtown, downtown, town Goin' down, downtown Red Pants and the Sugarman in the temple street gloom Are drinkin' Chivas Regal in a four dollar room Just another dead soldier in a powder blue night Red Pants turn to Sugarman and says, "Everything's alright" Goin' downtown, downtown, town Goin' down, downtown

Lonely, lonely, lonely Lonely eyes, lonely face Lonely, lonely in your place, lonely Lonely, lonely eyes, lonely face Lonely, lonely in your place I thought that I knew All that their was to lonely Lonely, lonely, lonely Melanie Jane won't feel the pain Lonely, lonely Lonely, lonely eyes, lonely face Lonely, lonely in your place I thought that I knew All that their was to lonely Lonely, lonely Lonely eyes, lonely face Lonely, lonely in your place And I still love you I still love you Lonely, lonely

Dot King was whittled from the bone of Cain With a little drop of poison in the red, red blood She need a way to turn around the bend She said, "I want to walk away and start over again" There are things I've done I can't erase I want to look in the mirror see another face I said, "never", but I'm doing it again I wanna walk away, start over again No more rain, no more roses I'm on my way, shake my thirst in a cool, cool pond There's a winner in every place There's a heart that's beating in every page The beginning of it starts at the end When it's time to walk away and start over again Weather's murder at a hundred and three William Ray shot Corabell Lee A yellow dog knows when he has sinned You wanna walk away and start over again No more rain, no more roses I'm on my way, shaking my thirst in a cool, cool pond Cooper told Maui the whole block's gone They're dying for jewellery, money and clothes I always get out of the trouble I'm in I want to walk away, start over again I left my bible by the side of the road Carve my initials in an old dead tree I'm going away but I'm going to be back when It's time to walk away and start over again It's time to walk away and You gotta walk away, gotta walk away I just wanna walk away yeah, wanna walk away and start over again I wanna walk away, wanna walk away, wanna walk away, wanna walk away, I wanna walk away...