Verse
Like a bolt of lightning
Like a bolt of thunder
Like a cloudy day
Down at the zoo
Like a drowning man
That will never go under
That close to you, yeah,
that close to you
Bridge
In the middle of the night
You'd ask me to make you smile
You'd come on like a one-armed child
With a hole in its shoe, poor you
Everybody oughta know
It only hurts ya for a little while
So stop putting yourself on trial
For something you didn't do
Not you, to me, can't we be just like
Lovers and mothers and brothers and sorrow
Can I find a little something with a nicer view
I'm hating to plead but I'm begging to borrow
Just to be that close to you
Yeah, that close to you
Bridge
In the middle of the night
You'd ask me to make you smile
You'd come on like a one-armed child
With a hole in its shoe, poor you
Everybody oughta know
It only hurts ya for a little while
So stop putting yourself on trial
For something you didn't do
Not you, to me, can't we be just like
Lovers and mothers and brothers and sorrow
Can I find a little something with a nicer view
I'm hating to plead but I'm begging to borrow
Just to be that close to you
Yeah, that close to you
Oh, that close to you
Yeah, that close to you
outro