I still remember first meeting you when You were a small blond kid about nine or ten Your mother went missing and your father drank For your first real home you had an aunt to thank You came to stay when you were still quite young You had mischievous eyes and a razorsharp tongue Life has its interludes and this was one As we'd pretend for the weekend you were our son We used to pick you up when you were feeling blue Take you out to the movies and the circus too But nothing's forever and it couldn't last We had our own baby, and the moment passed If you felt betrayed, boy, you hid it well But when I think back now I feel guilty as hell You hit the bottle when you hit your teens Became runaway jailbait for chicken queens
Don't jump, don't fall There's a world of love out there and you can have it all
I must admit it must've seemed like fun The kind of life you lived when you were on the run The tricks you turned, and the drugs you'd done As you scraped the barrel with your lowlife chums You were always so certain you'd never see thirty When you called collect to talk drunk and dirty A restless aching deep within And the pain of inhabiting a human skin
Don't jump, don't fall, here's a world of love out there and you could have it all Don't jump, don't fall, standing on that balcony, your back against a wall
You must have been shaking with a terrible dread As you climbed unsteady from your unmade bed Did you feel relief or did you just feel numb To know your moment had finally come When you left the flat on that final night Did you lock the door, did you leave the light Did you think of her, did you think of me Or did you simply think you were about to be free The alcohol raging round your veins The black depression pouring down like rain I pray to God by every holy name My own sweet children never know that pain
Don't jump, don't fall, here's a world of love out there and you could have it all Don't jump, don't fall, standing on that balcony, your back against a wall Don't jumpTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
