trying to keep a candle burnin in a hurricane that s what it s like when you love me and you leave me this way like a dove cryin out when he s lost the will to fly yeah shackled down to the earth by your long chained lies well i ll forgive you tomorrow if the sun doesn t shine let you back into my life when the oceans are dry take you back when every shade of the rainbow turns gray but i just can t do it today i can t do it today well i can see you dancin in that stranger s arms my world hasn t stopped turnin but it s fallin apart every breath that i take s a little closer to sane yeah they say that time is a healer but it s still a long long ways away yeah i ll forgive you tomorrow if the sun doesn t shine let you back into my life when the oceans are dry take you back when every shade of the rainbow turns gray but i just can t do it today i can t do it today don t wanna do it today there s a part of me that wishes i could just forget but i haven t found the mercy yet no mercy yet i ll forgive you tomorrow if the sun doesn t shine let you back into my life when the oceans are dry take you back when every shade of the rainbow turns gray but i just can t do it today i just can t do it today i just can t do it today i just can t do it today wanna do it today can t do it today not gonna do it today