I'll let you go I close my eyes Tell me his name I want to know The way he looks And where you go I need to see his face I need to understand

Living in a life that few could understand Sometimes it gets so confusing that I don't know where I am But I always know who I'm with I'm with the band Last night in Memphis Tonight in New Orleans Tomorrow I'll be miles from here Ain't nothing to me,

Help me make it through the night I don't care who's right or wrong I don't try to understand Let the devil take tomorrow Lord tonight I need a friend Yesterday is dead and gone And tomorrow's out of sight And it's sad to be alone

Smile like you mean it Oh no, oh no no no Save some face, you know you've only got one Change your ways while you're young Boy, one day you'll be a man Oh girl, he'll help you understand Looking back at sunsets on the East side We lost track of the time

Just be as you are Be as you are, be as, be as you are But in times of trouble I can turn to my mother And I know that she gon' understand And she told me, young man There are moments when you fall to the ground But you are stronger than you feel you are

Circumstances made me what I am Was I born a violent man Everyone should understand Everyone should know May sound strange, might sound foolish But things ain't getting better Everyday another fall victim to the beretter Why is there so much violence

Then you suffer Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin' glass When you believe in things that you don't understand Very superstitious, writings on the wall Very superstitious, ladders bout' to fall Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past

Now don't you even act like you don't wanna get up You better get out on the dancefloor show me what you got 'Cause I don't even want too much just for y'all to understand A party ain't a party if I'm not in the party So I need to see some hands All I

You'll understand why God made A couple guys in first class on a flight From new York to Los Angeles, Kinda making small talk killing time, Flirting with the flight attendants, Thirty thousand feet above, could be Oklahoma, Just a bunch of square

I'm gonna take you by surprise And make you realize, I'm gonna tell you right away, I can't wait another day, I'm gonna say it like a man And make you understand I don't want to lose you Babe, tomorrow's so far away