Dear Sobriety Please come back to me I left you high and dry I'm doomed for good this time I swore I wouldn't be I need you desperately Oh but I'm making a fool of me My hands are shaking But I can still pour the mistake that I'm making

Child stay down, stay down You better run for cover underground Look at me, right at me When I'm telling you to stay down Come to me, run to me I am begging you to stay down Cling to me desperately All you gotta do is stay down

Your heart's a mess You won't admit to it It makes no sense But I'm desperate to connect And you, you can't live like this The pieces of your heart And let me peer inside

I keep telling myself I'm not the desperate type Sitting out dances on the wall Trying to forget everything that isn't you I'm not going home alone 'Cause I don't do too well on my own But you've got me looking in through blinds I'm sleeping my way out

(Poo poo poo-poo-poo-poo-poo) (Poo poo poo-poo poo poo poo) I'm just a desperate man I'm a desperate man I said hey, what can I say? Oh hey, I said hey I've seen the Joshua Tree Got down on my knees Threw the Virgin Mother a prayer

No, I can't be the on-only one Ooh ooh ooh, give me a sign That you feel it too Baby, cross the line Yeah, ooh-ooh-ooh, I need more When we're making this up Say it isn't so 'Cause I'm so desperate for you I can taste your skin on my tongue (my tongue)

It's amazing With the blink of an eye, you finally see the light When the moment arrives that you know you'll be alright And I'm sayin' a prayer for the desperate hearts tonight I kept the right ones out And let the wrong ones in Had an angel of mercy to

I knew you that way I held you closer than I had a right to hold But the only thing that time can't take away Is I knew you that way The secret way long shadows bleed into the night The desperate way leaves in the fall hold colors tight The way that

It's amazing With the blink of an eye, you finally see the light When the moment arrives that you know you'll be alright And I'm sayin' a prayer for the desperate hearts tonight I kept the right ones out And let the wrong ones in Had an angel of mercy to

I'll do the Chicago promenade My door is locked, my debts are paid My back was turned I did not see That shadow climbing up on me I took my turn at fixing hearts But that goes bad before it starts I'm desperate now, I must say If I die now before I'm old