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

hopeless, The 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 the and 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