Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight

Just a minute 'fore you leave, girl

Just a minute 'fore you touch the door

What is it that you're trying to achieve, girl?

Do you think we can talk about it some more?

You know the streets are filled with vipers

Who've lost all ray of hope

You know it's not even safe no more

In the palace of the Pope

Don't fall apart on me tonight

I just don't think that I could handle it

Don't fall apart on me tonight

Yesterday's just a memory

Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be

And I need you, yeah

Come over here from over there, girl

Sit down here, you can have my chair

I can't see us goin' anywhere, girl

The only place open is a thousand miles away

And I can't take you there

I wish that I'd been a doctor

Maybe I'd have saved some life that'd been lost

Maybe I'd have done some good in the world

'Stead of burning every bridge I crossed

Don't fall apart on me tonight

I just don't think that I could handle it

Don't fall apart on me tonight

Yesterday's just a memory

Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be

And I need you, ah, yeah

I ain't too good at conversation, girl

So you might not know exactly how I feel

But if I could, I'd bring you to the mountaintop, girl

And build you a house made out of stainless steel

But it's like I'm stuck inside a painting

That's a-hangin' in the Louvre

My throat starts a-ticklin', my nose itches

But I know that I can't move

Don't fall apart on me tonight

I just don't think that I could handle it

Don't fall apart on me tonight

Yesterday's gone but the past lives on

Tomorrow's just one step beyond

And I need you, oh

Who are these people that are walking towards you

Do you know them or will there be a fight?

With their humorless smiles so easy to see through

Can they tell you what's wrong from what's right?

Oh, do you remember Saint James Street

Where you blew Jackie P's mind?

You were so fine, Clark Gable would have fell at your feet

And laid his life on the line

Let's try to get beneath the surface waste, girl

No more booby traps and bombs

No more decadence and charm

No more affection that's misplaced, girl

No more mud cake creatures lyin' in your arms

What about that millionaire with the drumsticks in his pants?

He looks so baffled and so bewildered

When he played and we didn't dance

Don't fall apart on me tonight

I just don't think that I could handle it

Don't fall apart on me tonight

Yesterday's just a memory

Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be

And I need you, yeah, you

I, I need you