Oh, I'm a master pretender I'll be your master defender Never thought that I was weak Always thought I could get hurt pretty bad Still get up on my own two feet I always believed that I was free That I had some sense of integrity That would rise above

For the Bible tells me so Yes Jesus loves me for the Bible tells me so Yes Jesus loves me Jesus loves me this I know Little ones to him belong They are weak but he is strong Oh, yes Jesus loves me Pressing on the up away Always guide me Lord I pray

I was (Raised on the radio, raised on the radio, raised on the radio) And the radio played And the radio plays I remember riding shotgun in daddy's Chevrolet, We'd crank up the pioneers, and we'd sing away, Sometimes he'd let me take the wheel and we'd

The whole time you were just trying to love me Wanted to talk but I walked away Didn't want to hear what you had to say I pushed and you pulled Should have just fell into you But I did what I always do, I always do Stupid me, can't believe I never knew

My old flame I can't even think of his name I've met so many men With fascinating ways A fascinating gaze in their eyes Some who sent me up to the skies But their attempts at love Were only imitations of But I'll never be the same

I'm just a soiled dirty boy, Mutilate and sew my new clothes for masquerading, Aprons of flesh corpse scalped hair with skin upon my face, Cold and silent, soiled face I will wash it all away, With my love, That's all she's ever needed, from me It's my

There you are You're there with open arms Can't see when I'm falling Losing myself But then I hear you calling Only you know me the way you know me Only you forgive me when I'm sorry Even when I messed it up

The way old friends do We can face it together You and I can share the silence Finding comfort together And after fights and words of violence We make up with each other Times of joy and times of sorrow We will always see it through Oh I don't care what

I'm looking for some back and forth with you Are you feeling the same as I do? Now and now and then Now show a little backbone why don't you? Down and out Once upon a time I was somebody else In another life I saw myself Way back then, back when I was

One more tear to cry, here come the lonely nights Take it on the base, take it on the westbound line Every time I love, I always seem to end up crying So this is my goodbye, wrote it on the way back home You say you never loved me, I wish somehow I could