Levi Stubbs Tears

With the money from her accident

She bought herself a mobile home

So at least she could get

Some enjoyment out of being alone

No one could say that she was

Left up on the shelf

It's you and me against the world kid

She mumbled to herself

When the world falls apart

Some things stay in place

Levi Stubbs' tears

Run down his face

She ran away from home

In her mother's best coat

She was married before

She was even entitled to vote

And her husband was one of those blokes

The sort who only laughs at his own jokes

The sort the war takes away

And when there wasn't a war, he left anyway

When the world falls apart

Some things stay in place

Levi Stubbs' tears

Run down his face

Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong

Are here to make right everything that's wrong

Holland and Holland and Dozier too

Are here to make it all OK with you

One dark night

He came home from the sea

And put a hole in her body

Where no hole should be

It hurt here more

To see him walking out the door

A though they stitched her back together

They left her heart in pieces on the floor

When the world fall apart

Some things stay in place

She takes off the Four Tops tape

And puts it back in its case

When the world falls apart

Some things stay in place

Levi Stubbs' tears

Run down his face