words by Gordon Downie

music by Bobby Baker)



I need your confidence

need to know you're mine

when it gets right down

to the killing time

i know you're heart is bad

but it's all I've ever had

we can live our lives

on this righteous crime



I got kicked when I was down

and a sailor took my girl to town

then she licked my wounds

with the sea dog's salt

I drank half a bottle of jack

swore I'd never take you back

by the bottle's end

I was on that phone



What you call compromise

I don't understand

What you call compromise

I don't understand



How do you walk away

How do you walk away

How do you walk away from a woman

that gone and done you wrong