Beauty On A Back Street

You can say that i lied a lot you can
Throw up your hands
Pardon me, if the man you got
Wasn't part of the plan
I'll confess, if i'm wrong or not so you'll
Know where you stand
Love's a test and you've got to find out
If you're stronger
Then i am
Love hurts
Love heals
And it's the only thing that will keep
Us together
First we fight, then we fall asleep, then
We wake up as friends
With a kiss and a promise we won't
Do it again
Can't you see, when the fighting ends
That nobody wins
Can you tell if we've gone too far
To come back again
Love hurts
Love heals
It's the only thing, it's the only thing

She's the girl who used to be
In the town that can't remember
Just a face you use to see
In a show one past september
Another child star who didn't get far
As she hoped to
She's got re-runs for memories....
She don't want sympathy
Or pity from me
She wants the chance to do it over
Just to prove that she can
There's no sympathy
Or pity from me
Just the chance to do it over
To prove that she can
She reads the want ads and haunts the bars
What she finds is next to nothing
She can push but just so far
And she's tired of being that someone
At the end of the line
She wants her day in the sun forever
Not much different from you and me....
She's the girl who used to be
In the town that can't remember

I spent last night trying to write to you
But the words wouldn't come,
I couldn't go on
And the telephone won't do

I'm sick and tired of hearing
"you're never home"
Yet i'm sick in the head and the hotel
Beds don't feel right
Though i hope it doesn't show
I feel a hollow down below
And there's nothing, nothing for me to say

I feel the emptyness inside me
The emptyness inside me
I have this feeling and i've got to get back
This feeling that i've got to get back to you

There's no one else
There's nothing else
There's no one else
I hear myself saying again and again....
Even if it doesn't show
I feel a hollow down below
And there's nothing, nothing for me to say

I feel the emptyness inside me
I hope it doesn't show
The emptyness inside me
Like a hollow down below
I have this feeling and i've got
To get back
This feeling that i've got to get back to you
I feel nothing but the emptyness

Come to me like i'm the doctor
Say you need someone to talk ta'
You want advice go ask your mother
One bad turn deserves another
'cause i've been cursed with your infection
Makin' my head hurt makin' my eyes burn
You've taken me in the wrong direction
And left me there with no protection

Bad habits can be cured by cutting
Them out
Infections can be cured by cutting
Them out

Maybe you'll find a friend up in the
Rainbow room
If you can dodge the drinks that
They've been throwing at you
Anyway, your boyfriend should be
Coming home soon
Then you can hide your life away

Bad habits can be cured by cutting
Them out
Infections can be cured by cutting
Them out

Come to me like i'm the doctor
Come to me like i'm the doctor
Come to me like i'm the doctor
I am the doctor
I am the doctor