Evolution

(hicks / clarke / nash)
Leave me
If it gives you satisfaction
Slander my name all over the place
Don't you have an inclination
You're gonna ruin a reputation
Leave me

Tell me
Now i've got you in the corner
Won't you admit you've been telling me lies
I don't care about you
I'll get along without just
Leave me

It's so hard to please (hard to please) you yeah
Tease (hard to tease) you

Leave me
I don't ever want you near me
Pack all your things and get out of my sight
Your love was made of sand
I've had all i can stand
Leave me

Chorus

Verse 3

You've got to leave me baby
C'mon now
You've got to leave me baby

(hicks / clarke / nash)

And the power you have over
Won't ever let me be
It's always holding me to you
And the strange things you say to me
Why do you play with me
It's just too sad to see

Stop right there
Tell me what you're doing to my mind in there
Tell me what you're doing am i blind
Long ago everything about you was for me to hold
Now my thoughts about you won't stay cold

And in time i might slip away
Into the light of day
But with you i must stay it's true
Wishful thinking will just bring me down
It's plain to see you own
The ground i'm standing on

Chorus

Verse 2

(hicks / clarke / nash)
When i hear pitter-patter the rain on the window
Reminds of her
When i hear pitter-patter the rain on the window

It was raining hard
The trees looked bare the night i met her
She was wet her hands were cold
The wind blew through her hair

Though i'd known her quite a long time
We were just good friends
So it didn't seem so strange
Inviting her back home

We sat by the fire
The flames brought out something in her
Melting all the cold
Projecting warmth i never knew

As the rain beat on my window
Did she understand
That in the glow of dying embers
Everything was planned

Pitter-patter pitter-patter pitter-patter pitter-patter
Pitter-patter pitter-patter pitter-patter pitter-patter
Pitter-patter pitter-patter pitter-patter pitter-patter
Pitter-patter pitter-patter pitter-patter pitter-patter

We made love later on that night
While the rain beat on my window
I can't forget the things that happened
While the rain beat down on my window

Next time i saw her
I knew she didn't want to know me
If i disappointed her
I think she should have told me

Can't she understand
I only tried to be a man
She made me feel so ashamed
Of everything i am

When i hear pitter-patter
The rain on the window
Reminds of her

(hicks / clarke / nash)
I've just come in from out of the rain
It's wet outside the water runs down a drain
I go to bed 'cause my head's full of pain

And drip drip it's driving me wild
Drip drip it's driving me wild

Outside the window there's a pipe wearing thin
It lets the water do a dance on a tin
I try to sleep but it's making a din

And drip drip it's driving me wild
Drip drip it's driving me wild

Water on the brain water on the brain
Water on the brain water on the brain

Drip drip it's driving me wild
Drip drip it's driving me wild

I toss and turn and my patience is weak
Go to the bathroom door and i take a peak yeah
The bath tap has started a leak

And drip drip it's driving me wild
Drip drip it's driving me wild
Drip drip it's driving me wild
Drip drip it's driving me wild

(hicks / clarke / nash)
When you love somebody that means a lot
And so you give the best of what you've got
It's a reason for living to have someone
Without a love in your life you can't go on

You need love i need love

When you're tired and worn out she'll run to you
And calm your restlessness and comfort you

You need love i need love

No wonder that i always say
I can't live another day without you
I tell my friends i'm feeling fine
Then they know that i'm not lying about you

All your life you'll know that your trust was right
When you're holding her close to you at night

You need love i need love

(hicks / clarke / nash)
My sadness it is growing
I'm sure it's started showing
This feeling's getting stronger
I can't hold back out much longer
It's swelling deep inside
Emotions i can't hide

Then the heartaches begin
I'm telling you
The heartaches begin

I need someone to guide me
Someone to reconcile me
To take away this pain
Before it starts again
But no one listens to me
Can't control what's set in deeply

Chorus

Four stone walls surround me
An empty shell's all you see
My former self's departed
A man who's broken hearted
Loneliness is what i fear
Holding on to all that's dear

Chorus

I'm telling you child