I gotta know how you’ve been doing these days please tell someone to let me know It’s dark and I just need to know I need to know
You gotta know how much you have altered my life The reason I can’t find peace of mind I’m trying hard to tell your existence from mine
I wish the craving made me better If I could wait the morning sun There is no point in saving life for later So just let me know Then I will be gone
I gotta know we can live without each other The sun is rising for another day I’m crying out my pain
To make it go away
I wish the craving made me better If I could wait the morning sun There is no point in saving life for later So just let me know
I wish the craving made me better If I could wait the morning sun There is no point in saving life for later So just let me know So just let me know So just let me know Then I will be gone

What would I do? I just need you You keep me true with all I’m into I need your time I need your grace Please stay the same dear please keep me safe
Don’t let me down Don’t let me down Cos, I need you hour to hour Don’t let me down Don’t let me down Oh please keep me aground
What would I see If I could say All of those things I’d meant to someday Should take you out Should lift you up But all these things dear I get caught up
Don’t let me down Don’t let me down Cos I need you hour to hour Don’t let me down Don’t let me down Oh please keep me aground Don’t let me down
So if I’m left With my own world Should I be brave in a life without you? Would I have time? Would I have grace? Would I stay sane dear without your face? And all I ask Is that you’ll stay Here beside me not any other way I need your touch I need your truth I hope you see dear I just need you
Don’t let me down Don’t let me down Cos I need you hour to hour Don’t let me down Don’t let me down Oh please keep me aground Don’t let me down Don’t let me down Cos I need you hour to hour Don’t let me down Don’t let me down Oh please keep me aground Oh please please stay around Oh please don’t let me down Don’t let me down

When you and I were young
We’d chase the setting sun And run into the night I was waiting on the world To finally find a girl
 And settle into life Somewhere in the years We seemed to disappear We’ve never been the same
Slowly over time
 Year’s bend and wind Everything has changed
Bad dreams rough seas
 You and I have nowhere left to run
Hard nights long fights
 You and I are dying all alone
We got lost along the way
It’s what we don’t see
 The cracks in between
 How could we have known?
A place we don’t speak A room we don’t sleep Can we call it home?
Bad dreams rough seas
 You and I have nowhere left to run
Hard nights long fights
 You and I are dying all alone
We got lost along the way
Bad dreams rough seas
 You and I have nowhere left to run
Hard nights long fights
 You and I are dying all alone We got lost along the way We got lost along the way

Shala la la la
Hold tight.
Shala la la la
It's gonna be alright.
These days are lost and long;
All things are crooked and cold;
I'm itching to be numb.
I don't wanna see or know.
Shala la la la
Hold me.
Shala la la la
Hold me.
Let me take you into my arms;
Shield you from weary and pain.
Who are they who’ve not known harm?
Oh love, I just can't say.
Shala la la la
Hold me tight
Shala la la la
It's gonna be alright
I'll sing you a tune –
When love dies in the dark.
A song for those who lose;
Life gone and took my spark.
Shala la la la
Hold me.
Shala la la la
Hold me.
The day is lost and long;
All things are crooked and cold.
We’re fixing to be numb.
I don't wanna see or know.
Shala la la la
Well it's alright.
Shala la la la
Get me through the night.
Shala la la la
It's gonna be alright.
Shala la la la
Hold me tight.
Shala la la la
Hold me tight.
Shala la la la
It's gonna be alright.
Shala la la la
It's gonna be alright.

Texarkana en route to New Orleans –
My baby fell from his bike.
And I was told he lay conscious;
And he knew death would arrive.

Ride, ride, ride, ride…

From weeping trees blue bottles hang –
And southern grass come covered with mist.
Could he not stay on the road we paved?
The dirt devours those who fall adrift.

Ride, ride, ride, ride…

They took his body back to the Golden State;
Where his mother wept a sad goodbye.
And not a dry eye was to be seen –
Unless you looked into my eyes.

Ride, ride, ride, ride…

Rat a tap tap;
Oh don’t you come and ask;
Am I a coming back?
The sky has gone black on us.

Don’t you weep –
Blame myself for these things
Known I was stronger than he –
And all you weaklings knew it.

Toodle loo;
They all abandoned you
One bruised and another screwed,
But I was the only loved.

Oh, Hannah Leah …
I was the only love.

Keep that bed.
Now brother, keep that rug.
Lord knows I was given so much –
And the devil keeps me fed.

On the wall. On the stove –
And in the blank book you draw –
There are signs of Hannah Leah
There are signs of our love.

Oh, Hannah Leah …
There are signs of love.

On a black, blue night
I go a wandering:
Out over Houston –
Along Avenue A.
Hannah Leah
On Avenue A.

Ku Klux Klan;
There’s evil in every man.
Come love her when you can –
And see about Hannah Leah.