When a Man Gets Down

When a man gets down, he goes out on the town
 And he won't come home until the whole damned night is over
 And when that man's out on the town, he starts looking around
 For a pretty face with a sympathetic shoulder
 But he won't talk to me
 He won't talk to me
 He won't say nothin' that might get him in trouble
 He won't talk to me
 He won't talk to me
 He'd rather sink his lips right back into the bottle
 When that man comes home as the sun doth rise
 She cries it out until her tired eyes are swollen
 And when that man lay's down, in the bed she made
 He hides his face deep under the covers
 But he won't hold me
 It's not where he wants to be
 Yet she says she loves him over and over
 He won't hold me
 It's not where he's meant to be
 He can try but in his heart he knows it over
 She sits and cries it out, but she don't call no one
 She don't want the girls to know all of their business
 'Cause they fall apart every month or two
 Ad it's all good until the storm clouds shadow over
 I wanna wake him up
 I wanna shake him down
 Show him we can get to the place back where we started
 But he's gotta talk to me