What would I do? I just need you You keep me true with all I’m into I need your time I need your grace Please stay the same dear please keep me safe
Don’t let me down Don’t let me down Cos, I need you hour to hour Don’t let me down Don’t let me down Oh please keep me aground
What would I see If I could say All of those things I’d meant to someday Should take you out Should lift you up But all these things dear I get caught up
Don’t let me down Don’t let me down Cos I need you hour to hour Don’t let me down Don’t let me down Oh please keep me aground Don’t let me down
So if I’m left With my own world Should I be brave in a life without you? Would I have time? Would I have grace? Would I stay sane dear without your face? And all I ask Is that you’ll stay Here beside me not any other way I need your touch I need your truth I hope you see dear I just need you
Don’t let me down Don’t let me down Cos I need you hour to hour Don’t let me down Don’t let me down Oh please keep me aground Don’t let me down Don’t let me down Cos I need you hour to hour Don’t let me down Don’t let me down Oh please keep me aground Oh please please stay around Oh please don’t let me down Don’t let me down

Winter morningI’m seducted by the dewBird song callingAs the sun comes into viewOver woodlandJust across the foggy plain
I hear laughter
In those trees my heart will stay

Mmmm
Summer daydreamsLost in undulating shoresWater ripples
Bodies crippled to the coreGentle sea breezeAll our troubles flew awayWater held me
In that sea my heart will stay
Oooo
Birds are callingTrees are rustling in the breezeI get lost inPicture postcard memories.

Rat a tap tap;
Oh don’t you come and ask;
Am I a coming back?
The sky has gone black on us.

Don’t you weep –
Blame myself for these things
Known I was stronger than he –
And all you weaklings knew it.

Toodle loo;
They all abandoned you
One bruised and another screwed,
But I was the only loved.

Oh, Hannah Leah …
I was the only love.

Keep that bed.
Now brother, keep that rug.
Lord knows I was given so much –
And the devil keeps me fed.

On the wall. On the stove –
And in the blank book you draw –
There are signs of Hannah Leah
There are signs of our love.

Oh, Hannah Leah …
There are signs of love.

On a black, blue night
I go a wandering:
Out over Houston –
Along Avenue A.
Hannah Leah
On Avenue A.

Ku Klux Klan;
There’s evil in every man.
Come love her when you can –
And see about Hannah Leah.

You and I used to meet on the crowded street;
High on absinthe and all distilled so sweet.
Under a doorway lit by a single bulb:
You asked me if I could give you my love.
Sir I cannot give what I do not feel –
So don't ask and ask you wax me ill.
Yet, I should think there a girl
who might take pity on you –
Who'd love you like you know
I could never do.
Nell or Nan won't give you trouble
like you know I would;
Their love is free, which I'm sure you deserve.
Now, let's shake hands and
call ourselves “friend”.
For all things start and
all things must end.
I shall say our time together was
that most pleasant.
Remember me well and
harbor no resentment.
But why you go ‘round and say
that I have no heart?
It don't make sense
– you want what you say I ain't got.
C’mon, now, sir.
Now, I said I could not love you
and that I mean.
Ain't no man gonna put a rope around me.

Ain't no man gonna put a rope around me.
            She ain't said never better wait and see.
Ain't no man gonna put a rope around me.
            She ain't said never better wait and see.