Wake up in the morning and I'm by myself Sad and so depressed since you left I hate to think you're smiling with somebody else And I know you'll never love me again And I try and pretend that it's all okay That I'm doing better without you Getting harder and harder every day But I'm just trying to make it through Need your love, need your touch To keep me going Need your lips, tender kiss I'm so broken And believe me, I'm trying to let you go But I need you to know that it's difficult And it hurts, really hurts And I'm still coping (oh) I'm still coping (oh) I'm still coping And I try and pretend that it's all okay But I'm broken, broken Getting harder and harder with every day But I'm coping I'm coping Need your love, need your touch To keep me going Need your lips, tender kiss Girl, I'm so broken Need your love, need your touch To keep me going (I, to keep me going) Need your lips, tender kiss (I need it) Girl, I'm so broken I'm coping (oh) Still I'm coping, yeah It hurts, and it hurts with you gone, oh (oh) Need your love, need your touch 'Cause I'm coping

I got to find a better coping mechanism I'm falling apart, disintegrating in the schism Is it a show or is it realism? Lost and found, and then I was locked up in a prison I better find a more suitable solution Before I reach the most predictable conclusion To be a victim of my personal delusion Just to find that I've been living an illusion They say there's just no substitute for the real thing The kind of chemical that'll make your whole body sing You can take the needle, shove it in your vein And call it medication to alleviate your pain I do my best to keep the confusion to a minimum I'll try not to be the monster of the millennium Someday they'll thank us for the hell that we was givin' 'em When all of this time, we just hope we were borderline offendin' 'em They say there's just no substitute for the real thing The kind of chemical that'll make your whole body sing Scrub it 'til you're bleedin', but you can't scrub out the stain Leave your mouth wide open while you're drowning in the rain Put your head down, wipe the spit out your eye Ain't nobody coming to your poor me parade When trouble knock on the door, what you ignoring it for? You'll be standing there helpless when it comes on in Say there's just no substitute for the real thing The kind of chemical that'll make your whole body sing You can test your merit, can show it some restraint But in the end, you're just a predictable refrain Oh, ain't nothing like the real thing The kind of chemical that'll make your whole body sing You can test your merit, can show it some restraint But in the end, you're just a predictable refrain Poison in your brain ('cause your heart has been mislain) You're gonna die just the same (for a dream you could not attain) You drove yourself insane (and there's nobody left to blame) You carry on and complain 'Til you forget your name

Forget about your name And your reputation Put down your occupation And your education I heard what you said About it be complicated It ain't simple either way Yes, a dream will make you pay Somebody out here counting on you To break through somehow Somebody out here counting on you To break through somehow Cause you don't even know it Where are you going? Or haven't you noticed You're hopelessly coping? Settle, settle, settle down Instead of running, running round Settle, settle, settle down Instead of running, running round Settle, settle, settle down Instead of running, running round Settle down instead of So why play it safe? What you mean, just in case? Well of course you might fail But that's what it takes Can't run from the doubts Either way you're gonna struggle Look in the mirror and now Then tell yourself it ain't worth the trouble Somebody out here counting on you To break through somehow And you don't even know it Where are you going? Or haven't you noticed You're hopelessly coping? And you don't even know it Where are you going? Or haven't you noticed You're hopelessly coping? Settle, settle, settle down Instead of running, running round Settle, settle, settle down Instead of running, running round Settle, settle, settle down Instead of running, running round Settle down instead of And you don't even know it Where are you going? Or haven't you noticed You're hopelessly coping?

Know a lot of girls She's not the same Waist long hair Hides the pain And the way she talks About beauty and change I still can't believe What she was up against Her mama had her doubts Her dad was not around Did every little thing by her lonesome You should've heard the sound She'll never turn it down Always had it loud just to focus And she moved right out the house 16 but 21 Spirits to her head like she's coping Never broke (no) But she's coping still But she left that girl at home She left that girl sometime ago She left that girl at home Wish I could tell her she'll never be alone When the rain pours down It's a perfect day And there's a hope in her eyes Even skies turn grey (oh) Lighting something sweet right to her face But it's been years That she can't replace Like her mama had her doubts Her dad was not around Did every little thing by her lonesome You should've heard the sound She'll never turn it down Always had it loud just to focus And she moved right out the house 16 but 21 Spirits to her head like she's coping Never broke (no) But she's coping still But she left that girl at home She left that girl sometime ago She left that girl at home Wish I could tell her she'll never be alone