The Very Thing

[Verse 1] The bar closes early on the Sabbath day So me and my kid we hit the park to play Then it start to rain so we walk home again He ask why he was born I don't know what to say I don't feel guilty and I don't feel sad This motherfucking life is the best he's had I said I've been there sonny and it ain't that bad I took my hits from the shits back when I was a lad [Chorus] So long ago and even though I tried I couldn't make him see The light that he had cast in front of me And even though I cried I couldn't make him be The very thing I needed [Verse 2] His mother make a scene when I come home late She look like she's dying and she's twenty-eight I never loved that whore I never will no more Except for a month back in '84 The jam was playin' and my heart stood still Gazin' at her shadow on the window sill [Chorus] So long ago and even though I tried I couldn't make her see I wasn't quite the man she thought I'd be And even though I cried I couldn't make her be The very thing I needed And even though I tried I couldn't make her see I wasn't quite the man she thought I'd be And even though I cried I couldn't make her be The very thing I needed [Interlude] (Could she be the thing I needed?) (Could she be the very thing, the very thing) [Outro] Push yourself away from your one best friend Who's gonna love you when you reach the end? Who will? Who will? Who will?