Why Does She Love Me?

One more

Oh buddy don't you think you've had enough

It's practically morning already

One more I said

Alright alright

My shift is over anyway so let's settle the bill okay

Jeez you're in a bad way ain't you

Worse than most that end up here

Here's the morning shift maybe he'll know what to do with you

Yes what to do with me

That's the question isn't it

That's always been the question

Ever since the beginning

She looks for sympathy

I give her sorrow

She asks for honesty

I've none to borrow

She needs my tender kiss

She begs it off me

I give her ugliness

Why does she love me

She yearns for higher things

Things I can't give her

The rush that music brings

I can't deliver

And even when she sings

And soars above me

I try to clip her wings

Why does she love me

One more drink sir

That's what I need

Don't you think sir

Leave the hurt behind

Do you hear me

Another drink

She wants the man I was

Husband and father

At least she thinks she does

She needn't bother

Beneath this mask I wear

There's nothing of me

Just horror shame despair

Why does she love me

How 'bout you sir

Tell me what am I to do sir

Leave the hurt behind

Morning Bernie coffee please

Hurry up before I freeze

I'll just take it black

Mother said I'd find you here

Miss Giry

Do you know where you are

Hell I imagine

Around here they call it suicide hall

It's where people end up

When they don't know where else to go

The hopeless the desperate

The good place to step off the side

Of the pier and quietly vanish

You seem to be a regular

Me

I come here to swim

This town is coarse and cold and mean

It's hard to keep your conscience clean

Faceless in the crowd

Anything's allowed

And so I come at dawn each day

Come to wash it all away

Sink into the sea blue and cool and kind

Let it set me free let the past unwind

Leave the hurt behind

You should never have come to America

It's not a place for people like you and Christine

It's too easy to forget who you are and where you belong

That's why Mother says you must leave here

Now take your wife and the boy and go

Leave

What about tonight

The concert the money

Am I to just run away from him

When the sun rises tomorrow

We can all start again clean

Sail across the sea

Put us out of mind

Close your eyes and flee

Let yourself stay blind

Leave this place behind