Depending On You

(album: Hackney Diamonds - 2023)

Your fingerprints in the dark
Your past and present tangle up in my arms
Our secrets sealed in our scars
Sharing a smoke on the steps of a bar
I was convinced I had your heart in my hands
I was making love but you had different plans

Now she's giving her loving to somebody new
I invented the game but I lost like a fool
Now I'm too young for dying and too old to lose
'Cause I was depending on you, yeah
'Cause I was depending on you

It's time to harden my shell
The toughest part is I know you too well
Now I'm just a story you tell
Embroidering the truth with things you never felt
You steal the spirit right out of a man
Now you're working on him and you don't give a damn

Now she's giving her loving to somebody new
I invented the game but I lost like a fool
Now I'm too young for dying and too old to lose
'Cause I was depending on you, yeah
'Cause I was depending on you

Now she's giving her loving to somebody else
She threw me down like a book off the shelf
Now I'm too young for dying and too old to lose
'Cause I was depending on you
'Cause I was depending on you

Depending on you
Yeah, depending on you
Ay, I was depending, relying on you
I was depending, depending on you
I was depending on you