words and music by Jimmy Nail
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since you've been gone, I've cried a river for you
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but I'm just wastin' time, and wastin' water, too
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I'm hanging out these nights, in these twilight worlds
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with all the late-night news, and the weather-girls
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no-one here but me, so I sit and cheer,
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watchin' sports t.v., sipping luke-warm beer
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I can take the pain, I can stand the rain
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but what I cannot bear, is that bum givin' you his name
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I'd like to tell all the whole wide world,
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what a cryin' shame this is
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but I get tongue-tied up,
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just tryin' to say my name without sayin' his
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what kind of a man am I? givin' up on love without a try
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thought what we had was, like, a special thing,
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now I find your wearin' that bum's ring!
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and what kind of a girl are you,
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tell me you love me then you tell him, too
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guess I'll be wonderin' 'til the day I die,
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what kind of man am I?
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It's a cryin' shame, what's become of me
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I'm not half the man, that I used to be
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and it's you's to blame, with your dirty tricks
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give a dog a name, you'd best beleave it sticks
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I can't compete with the fancy cars
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and the limousines he owns
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but there's a heart beatin' ten feet tall
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inside of all of this skin an' bones
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what kind of a man am I? I read the papers,
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let the world go by
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I let him walk you right through the door,
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when I should'a punched him on the jaw
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and what kind of a girl are you,
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tell me you love me then you tell him, too
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too dumb to laugh and too proud to cry,
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what kind of man am I?
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guitar solo
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it's bad enough tryin' to hold my head up
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on the streets of our tiny town
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if ther's a God up in heaven,
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I wonder if he'd send a bolt of lighting down?
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what kind of a man am I?
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I'd love to tell you but I'm too damn shy
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I stood an' let him give me all that grief,
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when I should'a kicked him in the teeth!
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and what kind of a girl are you,
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tell me you love me then you tell him too
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guess I'll be wonderin' 'til the day I die,
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what kind of man am I?
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What Kind Of Man Am I?
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| Jimmy Nail |
