| Lyrics: | Written by John Mellencamp
Talking: (One time only, [gulp] if you don't
get it right
this time, tough shit, tough shit,
everybody ready, tell me when, say when your
rolling
here, a one, a two, a one, two, three, die)
I press my face to the window
I ran my
fingers through my hair
I watched my life go around in a circle
And I realized that no body
but me cares
And I saw the hurt of my system
And I felt the madness of our faults
conforming
And I walked around your house for hours
And I could feel that you had me in some
kinda of stranglehold
And I don't know why you said those bad things about me
Well it
must be the way of protecting some kind of crazy pride
Yeah you always direct your attention
toward others
And look you know, it's so easy to see that my wounds have been
open
wide
And you can just kid the kid inside so many times
You can just kid the
kid till he grabs you by the throat
And is choking your young ass blind
And you just kid the
kid till you're walking on the tightrope in my my
mind ??
Yeah, you can just kid the kid
inside so many times
Well it wasn't funny, no, when I was bleeding all over the
table
Yeah, now as I recall, hey it wasn't funny at all
But you kept on laughing, huh, like
it was some kind of party, yea
Your always looking to belittle someone to make you feel
tall
Yea well, it's the same reaction in every situation
Do you really think it's so
necessary to be so mean
Yeah, and it's hard for me to justify my position
Yeah, when
everything that I'm saying can be said bad about Mr.
Springsteen, yea
(chorus)
Yeah
you know
Yeah, well I really really am the first to desire you ??
And I feel so |
