Just a minute before you leave, girl,
Just a minute before you touch the door.
What is it that you´re trying to achieve, girl?
Do you think we can talk about it some more?
You know, the streets are filled with vipers

Who´ve lost all ray of hope,
You know, it ain´t even safe no more
In the palace of the Pope.

Don´t fall apart on me tonight,
I just don´t think that I could handle it.
Don´t fall apart on me tonight,
Yesterday´s just a memory,
Tomorrow is never what it´s supposed to be
And I need you, yeah.

Come over here from over there, girl,
Sit down here. You can have my chair.
I can´t see us goin´ anywhere, girl.
The only place open is a thousand miles away and I can´t take you there.
I wish I´d have been a doctor,
Maybe I´d have saved some life that had been lost,

Maybe I´d have done some good in the world
´Stead of burning every bridge I crossed.

Don´t fall apart on me tonight,
I just don´t think that I could handle it.
Don´t fall apart on me tonight,
Yesterday´s just a memory,
Tomorrow is never what it´s supposed to be
And I need you, oh, yeah.

I ain´t too good at conversation, girl,
So you might not know exactly how I feel,
But if I could, I´d bring you to the mountaintop, girl,
And build you a house made out of stainless steel.
But it´s like I´m stuck inside a painting
That´s hanging in the Louvre,

My throat start to tickle and my nose itches
But I know that I can´t move.

Don´t fall apart on me tonight,
I just don´t think that I could handle it.
Don´t fall apart on me tonight,
Yesterday´s gone but the past lives on,
Tomorrow´s just one step beyond
And I need you, oh, yeah.

Who are these people who are walking towards you?
Do you know them or will there be a fight?
With their humorless smiles so easy to see through,
Can they tell you what´s wrong from what´s right?

Do you remember St. James Street
Where you blew Jackie P.´s mind?

You were so fine, Clark Gable would have fell at your feet
And laid his life on the line.

Let´s try to get beneath the surface waste, girl,
No more booby traps and bombs,
No more decadence and charm,
No more affection that´s misplaced, girl,
No more mudcake creatures lying in your arms.
What about that millionaire with the drumsticks in his pants?
He looked so baffled and so bewildered
When he played and we didn´t dance.

Don´t fall apart on me tonight,
I just don´t think that I could handle it.
Don´t fall apart on me tonight,
Yesterday´s just a memory,

Tomorrow is never what it´s supposed to be
And I need you, yeah.