Just a minute before you leave
Just a minute before you touch the door
What is it that you're trying to achieve?
Do you think we can just talk about it some more?
The streets are filled with vipers
Who've lost all ray of hope
It ain't 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, oh yeah
Come over here from over there
Sit down here. You can have my chair
I can't see us goin' anywhere
The only place open is a thousand miles away and I can't take you there
I wish I'd have been a doctor
Maybe I'd have saved some lives 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, oh yeah
I ain't too good at conversation
So, you might not know exactly how I feel
But if I could, I'd bring you to the mountaintop
And build you a house of stainless steel
But it's like I'm stuck inside a painting
That's hanging in the Louvre
My throat start to tickle and 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 yeah
Who are these people walking toward 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?
Do you remember Napolean Street
Where you blew Jackie P.'s mind?
You were so fine, Clark Gable would've fell at your feet
And laid his life on the line
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Let's try to get beneath the surface waste
No more booby traps and bombs, No more decadence and charm
No more affection that's misplaced,
No more mudcake creatures lying in your arms
What about that billionaire
With the drumsticks in his pants?
He looked so baffled, 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, oh yeah
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Don't fall apart on me tonight
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