Can't Be There

Try and call, at 2 a.m., you say you're down at the station So I ask what you're doing there, you just say that you're waiting And I know that when you're down, you feel like hell at night So I don't know what to say You tell me you don't think there's any way to set it right And no one's there to make you get behind the yellow line You went home safe, and woke up next day Like no worries, nothing here to see, my head's okay I'm battling the weather, oh I'm singin' "Umbrella" You're pretending there's no rain Yeah, two years to learn to face That he had to be the first to change Yeah, two tears, and words oughta break my heart And still it hurts to say, that Who Can't be there for you Yeah, I want to but the first step's up to You, you Can't be there for you Can't be there to help you out if I need saving, too You had to put tape on the cracks on the windows And the damn tap just keeps on dripping It isn't exactly what you'd call a home But it's something you can live in And fifteen years, yeah the time passed And I can't imagine what it must have been like, but When I call, I can hear the same slur in your voice Same man, same wine glass Back then I used to want to make you better but All grown up, now I get that I can't 'cause I know now, what mum knew then You can't be there for someone, until they ask So you can find somebody who can fix your tap And you can patch up your windows with tape But I'm not gonna sit and wait and watch you pour another one I can't help you if you don't wanna change Who, who Can't be there for you Yeah, I want to but the first step's up to You, you Can't be there for you Can't be there to help you out if I need saving, too And ever since I was a girl, been shown the mother and the nurse And hope that I should always keep on lovin' if it hurts 'Cause it's sons and soldiers, and nothing could be worse Than to turn around and make yourself the one that's coming first And I know it doesn't make me any less of a daughter, or less of a lover Or less of a friend, to find the strength to confess that I fought enough And now it's your turn 'Cause you're the only one that's left in the end so Don't paint my pain as virtue Don't paint my pain as virtue Don't paint my pain as virtue Don't paint my pain 'Cause I keep on loving You Can't be there for you Yeah, I want to but the first step's up to You, you Can't be there for you Can't be there to help you out if I need saving, too You 'Cause I keep on loving You