you re gonna say i told you so i never should have let you go ain t it funny that here we are the two of us in two different bars in separate cages dancing slow we ain t got nobody to call our own now you can always go back home where you just might be there alone now i m drunk and you re insane and i can t quit and you won t change ain t no halfhearted romeo why do you treat me so like our love s a joke hurts too much to laugh well can t you at least smile when you call me that now days are harder than you would believe ain t having luck making ends meet if time were money then look at me i m richer than a poor man should be price of admission oh it s much too steep for broke uneducated clowns like me it may be true i was first to leave but now i m begging you please my heart s on my sleeve and i m tipping my hat so can t you at least smile when you call me that not much is certain but this is true my arms are useless if they don t have you they hang around me with nothing to do i m hoping you and yours are lonesome too  neon buzzing and here i am last one standing last call again while you re unfolding in a stranger s hands i ll drink up and be somebody s man angels can walk i ve seen it before they turn handles and they open doors they act like devils now you ve been warned they ll vanish when love is war i m down on my knees and you won t have me back well can t you at least smile when you call me that i m down on my knees when you won t have me back well can t you at least smile when you call me that 