For all this misery Well I ain't got nothing Sure can tell you I'm gonna throw it down and go Staying out here That's the last thing on my mind I need shackles on my feet I need someone to save my soul's defeat I ain't got nothing

And it doesn't look that way to me It's in my eyes You tell me you like the taste You just need an excuse You tell me it calms your nerves You just think it looks cool You tell me you want to be different You just change for the same

Forty-eight hours needs forty-eight Friday or Saturday, what does that mean? Short space of time needs a heavy scene Monday is coming like a jail on wheels Forty-eight thrills So tell me an' I'll take the tube You know a girl, yeah well she's bound to be

Tell me, baby, what's your story And where you wanna go this time? Where you come from Tell me, lover, are you lonely? The thing we need is Never all that hard to find You're so lovely, are you lonely? Giving up on the innocence you left behind They come

Say that you don't want me Say that you don't need me Tell me I'm the fool Tell me you've been tortured Tell me you've been beaten And what I've done to you Matter what's true Even if it doesn't matter

You say that you want me I hope that you do Cause tell me just where I would be in this world Without someone like you When you say that you need me Like only you can Oh baby you don't really know what you've done To the heart of this man So baby tonight

Tell me that you need me Tell me that you want me Tell me, tell me right now I've been waiting all night for you to tell me what you want Tell me, tell me that you need me I've been waiting all night for you to Oh, oh, tell me what you want yeah I've

Either way we need to be happy Tell me, is this thing on? How do we keep it true? How do I keep you real to me, into me? Without it faking it, too What do we have to try? When everything is too loose 'Cause it always is just me and you That's the hardest

We get down down down Let's get loud loud loud till there's love and nothing else We feel sorry for ourselves We all need somebody's help And I get so overwhelmed till it's hard to tell What I'm thinking 'Cause the more that you give the more that comes

Oh baby, baby Show me, how you want it to be Tell me baby 'Cause I need to know now what we've got Hit me baby one more time How was I supposed to know That something wasn't right here I shouldn't have let you go