What Kind Of Man Am I?

(album: Big River - 1995)

Since you've been gone, I've cried a river for you
But I'm just wasting time, and wasting water, too
I'm hanging out these nights, in these twilight worlds
With all the late-night news, and the weather-girls
No one here but me, so I sit and cheer
Watching sports TV, sipping luke-warm beer
I can take the pain, I can stand the rain
But what I cannot bear, is that bum giving you his name

I'd like to tell all the whole wide world
What a crying shame this is
But I get tongue-tied up
Just trying to say my name without saying his

What kind of a man am I?
Giving up on love without a try
Thought what we had was, like, a special thing
Now I find your wearing that bum's ring
And what kind of a girl are you
Tell me you love me then you tell him, too
Guess I'll be wondering till the day I die
What kind of man am I?

It's a crying shame, what's become of me
I'm not half the man, that I used to be
And it's you's to blame, with your dirty tricks
Give a dog a name, you'd best believe it sticks

I can't compete with the fancy cars
And the limousines he owns
But there's a heart beating ten feet tall
Inside of all of this skin an' bones

What kind of a man am I?
I read the papers
Let the world go by
I let him walk you right through the door
When I should'a punched him on the jaw
And what kind of a girl are you
Tell me you love me then you tell him, too
Too dumb to laugh and too proud to cry
What kind of man am I?

It's bad enough trying to hold my head up
On the streets of our tiny town
If there's a God up in heaven
I wonder if he'd send a bolt of lightning down?

What kind of a man am I?
I'd love to tell you but I'm too damn shy
I stood an' let him give me all that grief
When I should'a kicked him in the teeth
And what kind of a girl are you
Tell me you love me then you tell him too
Guess I'll be wondering till the day I die
What kind of man am I?