Don't take no mess from nobody I ain't one to be questioned If they act up just leave 'em alone When ya done wit 'em you can send 'em home Switch, switch, switch, switch About who and where I've been About what time I came in Trying to squeeze, baby

Stop! in the name of love Before you break my heart Think it over Baby, baby, I'm aware of where you go Each time you leave my door I watch you walk down the street Knowing your other love you'll meet This time before you run to her Leaving me alone and

Sixteen years Sixteen banners united over the field Where the good shepherd grieves Desperate men, desperate women divided Spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves Fortune calls I stepped forth from the shadows to the marketplace Merchants and

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it This brokenness inside me might start healing. Out here it's like I'm someone else, Won't take nothing but a memory If I could just come in I swear I'll leave. From the house that built me. I thought that

You can have the house Girl all I want you to leave me is alone You can have the money You can have every penny that I will make from this here song Don't act surprised it ain't like you didn't know It's been a long long time comin' and it's time for me

Yeah, I'm so sorry He's in the corner growlin' or layin' down Yeah, I stop by my baby's house He start jumpin' from wall to wall Yeah, my woman got a crosseyed cat Livin' there with her in her home I got to leave my woman alone I got to leave my baby

Please forgive me Love is a game we play If you love me I'm right here Come back here Go, go (from this point on it's up to you) Then don't leave me Yeah, empty rooms Looking at a photo with a kiss and a come home soon

You can have the house Girl all I want you to leave me is alone You can have the money You can have every penny that I will make from this here song Don't act surprised it ain't like you didn't know It's been a long long time comin' and it's time for me

I know we hate to think about it But it's as real as you and me It's as real as you and me If I should go Hold my hand If I should leave Darling comfort me, please There could be a freak accident There could be a fatal disease

But I looked away And she ran away from me today I'm such a lonely man She took my hand And tried to make me understand That she would always be there It came as no surprise to me That she'd leave me in misery It seemed like only yesterday