i met a man who knew what love was from the start he told me try to live this way he told me there s thieves who try to take more than their hands can hold if you pretend you ve got it all you re wrong we take in the cold just to make it on our own like our mother s warmth mother s warmth we have bones that can bruise and surely the skin that can prove i met a thief who had an addiction with his hands he told me never live this way he told me we know how to set these hills on fire with both our hands tied behind our backs our hands are tied behind our backs we take in the cold just to make it on our own like our mother s warmth mother s warmth we have bones that can bruise and surely the skin that can prove that we are all alike that we are all alike we take in the cold just to make it on our own we have bones that can bruise and surely the skin that can prove