I Won't Be There Lyrics

See the lines on my face

Where the years have cut deep

See the shadows in my eyes

Where i never sleep

All I possess

Is here in my hands

All of my life

I've been a hard working man

You gonna need me

Gonna come a time gonna come a day

When you need me

All you gotta do all you gotta say

Is you need you need me

Gonna come a time gonna come a day

And I won't be there, I won't be there

Hey

I won't be there

Hey

When you need me

Hey

But I won't be there

Hear the crack in my voice

I could break down and weep

Love is not so pure

It can be dirty and cheap

Like the bitterest of pills

Is always hard to take

How can something be so real

Yet always be a fake

I can feel the poison

Ripping me apart

Self pity overwhelming me

And creeping through my heart

You gonna need me

Gonna come a time gonna come a day

When you need me

All you gotta do all you gotta say

Is you need you need me

Gonna come a time gonna come a day

And I won't be there, I won't be there

When you need me

Gonna come a time gonna come a day

When you need me

All you gotta do all you gotta say

Is you need you need me

Gonna come a time gonna come a day

And I won't be there, I won't be there

Obscenities and lies

Like a never ending stream

You cut me to the bone

With the violence of your screams

A thousand tiny pieces

Shattered on the floor

I still hear your laughter

In the closing of a door

Oow

You gonna need me

Gonna come a time gonna come a day

When you need me

All you gotta do all you gotta say

Is you need you need me

Gonna come a time gonna come a day

And I won't be there, I won't be there

When you need

Hey

Hey

Hey

Hey

When you need me

Hey

Hey

And I won't be there

Don't walk away

Hey

Hey

Hey

Don't walk away

Hey

Hey

Hey

Don't you turn your back

Hey

Hey

Cause I won't be there, I won't be there