Lyrics
When things get tough you just walk away
Expressing disappointment in someone leaving when faced with challenges.
Say you don't wanna leave but you ain't gonna stay
Acknowledging the desire to leave despite expressing reluctance to do so.
If things are gonna stay like they been going lately, baby
Addressing the current difficulties in the relationship and suggesting a need for change.
But I don't know what you need to hear
Expressing uncertainty about what the other person needs to hear.
I try to keep you near
Expressing effort to maintain closeness with the other person.
I dry up all your tears
Offering emotional support by drying the other person's tears.
I tell you that I love you, want you
Affirming love and desire for the other person.
What more can a man do?
Expressing the limitations of what a man can do to salvage the relationship.
Baby stay, lay back down in our bed
Requesting the other person to stay and work on the relationship.
Try like hell to get back what we've been missing lately
Expressing effort to regain what has been missing in the relationship.
Through good and bad I've been here and I ain't going nowhere
Commitment to being present through both good and bad times.
Baby you should know that, by now you oughta know that
Emphasizing that the other person should be aware of the commitment by now.
I ain't the kind to love just 'cause it's easy
Stating a reluctance to love only when it's easy.
Run when it gets harder, stay because I'm lonely
Expressing a commitment to stay despite difficulties, driven partly by loneliness.
It kills me you don't know me
Feeling hurt that the other person doesn't understand.
If only you could see inside me
Expressing a desire for the other person to see and understand the inner feelings.
You would stay, lay back down in our bed
Reiterating the plea for the other person to stay and work on the relationship.
Try like hell to get back what we've been missing lately
Expressing continued effort to regain what has been missing in the relationship.
Through good and bad I've been here and I ain't going nowhere
Reaffirming commitment through both good and bad times.
Baby you should know that, I think you oughta know that
Emphasizing that the other person should already be aware of the commitment.
Baby stay, lay back down in our bed
Repeating the plea for the other person to stay and work on the relationship.
Try like hell to get back what we've been missing lately
Expressing continued effort to regain what has been missing in the relationship.
Through good and bad I've been here and I ain't going nowhere
Reaffirming commitment through both good and bad times.
Baby you should know that, I think you oughta know that
Reiterating that the other person should already be aware of the commitment.
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