You Can Be With Me Tonight

Sing Along!

On Monday, your family dog died
You sat on your front porch and cried
I wish I'd been there to ease your pain

Tuesday you got drunk with an old flame
Then she told you she was changing her name
Some more bait you gotta cut loose again

Wednesday, you caught the bar on the way home
Another night spent drinking alone
With your front door thrown around the bend

Thursday you went postal at your job
walked out thinking nothing could be solved
Can you see a light shining at the end?

Well, you can be with me tonight
you can be with me tonight
You can be with me tonight
Maybe I can help you win again

I've been trying to get to you for a while
Despite the way your life's going
you make me smile
Even though I know, I'm not your kind

The sweet young things you go on about
The rail thin girls you like to check out
I can't compete with that on your mind

So I put up with these playful teases
Entertaining little fantasies
Of where we would be in another time

I shaved some time off and
killed some curves
you curbed that nasty temper of yours
And everything would be just fine

And you can be with me
tonight...

And if these words ever reach you
I hope you'll think of me somehow
The friendship died long ago
And I mean nothing to you now

We were just two ships in the night
Bought and sold for free
But I know my thoughts are bigger
Than this world could ever be

I need you with me tonight
I need you with me tonight
I need you with me tonight
I can help you win again
Let me help you win again
Or I'll never see you again


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