4th Time Around

[Verse 1]

When she said

“Don’t waste your words, they’re just lies”

I cried she was deaf

As she worked on my face

Until breaking my eyes

And said, “What else you got left?”

Yeah, it was then that I got up to leave

But she said, “Don’t forget

Everybody must give something back

For something they get”

[Verse 2]

I stood there and hummed

I tapped on her drum

I asked her "How come?"

And she buttoned her boot

And straightened her suit

Then she said, “Don’t get cute”

So I forced my hands in my pockets

And felt with my thumbs

And gallantly handed her

My very last piece of gum

[Verse 3]

She threw me outside

I stood in the dirt

Where everyone walked

And after finding out I’d

Forgotten my shirt

I went back and knocked

I waited in the hallway, she went to get it

And I tried to make sense

Out of that picture of you in your wheelchair

That leaned up against

[Verse 4]

Her Jamaican rum

And when she did come

I asked her for some

She said, “No, dear”

I said, “Your words aren’t clear

You’d better spit out your gum”

She screamed 'til her face got so red

Then she fell on the floor

And I covered her up and then

Thought I’d go look through her drawer

[Verse 5]

And when I was through

I filled up my shoe

And brought it to you

And you, you took me in

You loved me then

You never wasted time

And I, I never took much

I never asked for your crutch

Now don’t ask for mine