first promise me you wouldn't ever desert me tell me that you'd never willingly hurt me what I'm going to tell you will probably sting so tell me to stop and I won't say a thing

I'm a dirty man I went and I took a drink of dirty water I'm a dirty man I went and I took a drink of dirty water yes I did, yes I did

I needed to tell you I needed surrender I never was good at playing pretender it must be bad, your just staring at me now I'm just lost and I thought I was free - but

I'm a dirty man I went and I took a drink of dirty water I'm a dirty man I went and I took a drink of dirty water yes I did, yes I did

scream baby scream for your silence destroys me unlike your tears, they just used to annoy me bring down your thunder, I'm ready to shake sometime I feel like this is all a mistake

I'm a dirty man I went and I took a drink of dirty water I'm a dirty man I went and I took a drink of dirty water yes I did, yes I did

You go down like a stone that is dropped in the ocean so aware of the motion the descending to a place that's so alone now your weak and your words only mumbles like the hero that tumbles semiconcious just enough to know that...

this time the jokes on you babe this time the jokes on you babe this time the jokes on you

hey you should know that you can't fly forever meybe twice maybe never cause that something always breaks and it comes down its a shock when you finally hit bottom and you friends, if you still got 'em will assemble at you feet to tell you that...

this time the jokes on you babe this time the jokes on you babe this time the jokes on you

do you feel like starting over? do you feel like something died? are you desperate for the pieces of you pride?

pray for time let it heal let it change your direction let offer protection from the madness dark and sickly in you now it will pass I will bring you absolution it's my humble contribution better than someone spitting on you

this time the jokes on you babe this time the jokes on you babe this time the jokes on you

Oh baby what you don't know... the floodgates 'bout to overflow I've been holdin' it back for reasons even I don't understand

somewhere deep beneath my skin is a feelin I been holdin in for so long now that I can hardly find it

there's a candle burnin and the tv's on I'm sitting here trying to force this song while the feeling tears itself loose from my soul

I want to tell you 'bout the rain and this chinese man I wanna listen to the music of Chopin I wanna kiss your face so bad I'm cryin

At 11:30 pacific time look up at the moon I'll be on the east coast watching too

At 11:30 pacific time look up at the moon at least that is something that we can do together soon

there's a madness in me, I don't know why maybe it's because I'm afraid to die and maybe that's the reason I'm afraid to keep on living

oh so many times I've let you down when all you needed was to hear the sound of my voice as it whispers that I love you

my house is empty but my heart is full I need so much to lose control and blow like a wild pacific wind

I want to cry in your arms and laugh by the sea I want to feel your body next to me and make love 'til we fall asleep together

at 11:30 pacific time look up at the moon I'll be on the east coast watching too

at 11:30 pacific time look up at the moon at least that's something we can do together soon

it's always such a long way down when the mind's engaged when the heart's enraged and your falling down

it's always such a long way back to the soul of things the control of things it's a long way back

it's always such a lonely climb and the songs we sing they can ease the pain of a lonely climb

it's always such a long way down when the mind's engaged when the heart's enraged it's a long way down

all my constraints have changed and all the little games we clung to seem so strange and all the reasons that turned you onto me seem to have faultered

tell me where do we stand? I'm done believing that the outcomes in my hands I'm done believing that this whole world's mine to hold for the asking...

only you can walk away only you can walk away from it now

only you can walk away only you can walk away from it now

is this message unclear? perhaps if you would listen then you'd hear you'd hear a tumbling of voices pleading soft and somber

it's the raindrops you say well maybe so, they always seem to fall that certain way... much like the rhythm of the rocking chair I spend all my time in

only you can walk away only you can walk away from it now

only you can walk away only you can walk away from it now

..I guess it's me that still don't know how

only Sundays can smile and only something bad takes a little while and all the kindness that I took for granted blew away at 9:07

so raise your glasses to pain that's the only one that wins out in the bitter end it's not surrender it's just finding out that were only human

only you can walk away only you can walk away from it now

only you can walk away only you can walk away from it now

I guess it's me that still don't know how

6

Oh the time it ran right through us like the roar of a midnight train though we scorned...it made us sane held us prisoner --

and we prayed when you left us, yes, but only for a while our minds, so like a childs grew impatient with the waiting... and I...

tremble, tremble, tremble with the thought of you I tremble, tremble, tremble when I hear your name I tremble, tremble, tremble at your face above my bed lord there's nothing to be said to ease the pain

now the days are so much colder and a laugh somehow more rare and the things that made us care well they've changed a bit

when I wake in the morning and my reflection looks so pained god I know there's nothing gained if you don't get hurt a little and I still...

tremble, tremble, tremble with the thought of you I tremble, tremble, tremble when I hear your name I tremble, tremble, tremble at your face above my bed lord there's nothing to be said to ease the pain

now the strong they find a meaning or at least set out to try while the weak they wait to die just rewards and all

they say with every good catastrophe there's a lesson to be learned a wisdom that gets earned but for now that's just far away and I still...

tremble, tremble, tremble with the thought of you I tremble, tremble, tremble when I hear your name I tremble, tremble, tremble at your face above my bed lord there's nothing to be said to ease the pain

7

here I am staying away from you now in the midst of this last breath of summer

all of the reasons elluring my memory like the same ancient telephone number

where in the world can I turn if I can't turn to you I'm lonely and shaken I need you to carry me through

save me, save me I'm going down and I can't fight it save me, save me I'm going down and I can't fight it save me, save me oh baby -- oh won't you save me

when you're on top of the world it's so easy to throw away things like affection

when all eyes are on you you never think twice about needing a sense of direction

but take them away and its all quite an opposite game with no one to lean on you drown in your own sense of shame

save me, save me I'm going down and I can't fight it save me, save me I'm going down and I can't fight it save me, save me oh baby -- oh won't you save me

where in the world can I turn if I can't turn to you? I'm lonely and shaken, I need you to carry me through...

save me, save me I'm going down and I can't fight it save me, save me I'm going down and I can't fight it save me, save me oh baby -- oh won't you save me

when no one is forgotten and nothing goes to waste when sadness turns to laughter when anger's defaced you'll start to know the way I feel about you

when weakness turns to power when evil turns to good when the helpless are remembered by those who never would you start to know the way I feel about you

and if I could, I'd run out into the street and I'd scream to everyone I'd meet that I loved you more than words could say and that I loved you more than life this father's day

when caring is exalted when kindness knows no bounds when integrity comes easy when love is all around you'll start to know the way I feel about you

and if I could, I'd run out into the world and tell every boy and girl to love before love takes itself away just like I'm lovin you this father's day