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 going 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, 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 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, 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.