Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight

Just a minute 'fore you leave, girl
 Just a minute 'fore you touch the door
 What is it that you're trying to achieve, girl?
 Do you think we can talk about it some more?
 You know, the streets are filled with vipers
 Who've lost all ray of hope
 You know, it's not even safe no more
 In the palace of the Pope
 Don't fall apart on me tonight
 I just don't think that I could handle it
 Don't fall apart on me tonight
 Yesterday's just a memory
 Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
 And I need you, yeah
 Come over here from over there, girl
 Sit down here, you can have my chair
 I can't see us goin' anywhere, girl
 The only place open is a thousand miles away, and I can't take you there
 I wish that I'd been a doctor
 Maybe I'd have saved some life that had been lost
 Maybe I'd have done some good in the world
 'Stead of burning every bridge I crossed
 Don't fall apart on me tonight
 I just don't think that I could handle it
 Don't fall apart on me tonight
 Yesterday's just a memory
 Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
 And I need you, oh, yeah
 I ain't too good at conversation, girl
 So you might not know exactly how I feel
 But if I could, I'd bring you to the mountaintop, girl
 And build you a house made out of stainless steel
 But it's like I'm stuck inside a painting
 That's hanging in the Louvre
 My throat start to tickle and my nose itches
 But I know that I can't move
 Don't fall apart on me tonight
 I just don't think that I could handle it
 Don't fall apart on me tonight
 Yesterday's gone but the past lives on
 Tomorrow's just one step beyond
 And I need you, oh
 Who are these people who are walking towards you?
 Do you know them or will there be a fight?
 With their humorless smiles so easy to see through
 Can they tell you what's wrong from what's right?
 Oh, do you remember St. James Street
 Where you blew Jackie P's mind?
 You were so fine, Clark Gable would have fell at your feet
 And laid his life on the line
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 Let's try to get beneath the surface waste, girl
 No more booby traps and bombs
 No more decadence and charm
 No more affection that's misplaced, girl
 No more mudcake creatures lying in your arms
 What about that millionaire with the drumsticks in his pants?
 He looked so baffled and so bewildered
 When he played and we didn't dance
 Don't fall apart on me tonight
 I just don't think that I could handle it
 Don't fall apart on me tonight
 Yesterday's just a memory
 Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
 And I need you, yeah, you
 Ah, I need you