The Raw the Cooked lyrics

Life's been quiet since you've been gone
It's no fun burning for one
I was happy before you came
Now you've gone, it's just not the same

Lord know as hard as it is, as hard as it is
They know how hard it is
Lord knows as hard as it is, as hard as it is
He knows just how hard it is

I missed you bad, I want you now my darling,
It drives me mad not now having you

When the friends can't be found
And the girl is out of town
I come home to an empty house
The telephone is all I have

When my plans don't work out
Mama says, don't let it get you down
Don't let it get you down

There's a club I can't get it
Every week it's the same thing
I get mad I want to cry
it's my skin they don't like

When my plans don't work out

Never had the good things only money could buy
I'd drive my car but I haven't got a car to drive
Never had a holiday in a tropical sun
Good times look rough They're never going to come
Oh I know these times are bad
And they make you want to cry
Don't be sad
We'll get by
Baby baby don't look back
It won't do no good
Baby baby don't look back
I'm going to leave and I think that you should

You spurn my natural emotions
You make me feel like dirt and I'm hurt
And if I start a commotion
I run the risk of losing you and that's worse

Ever fallen in love with someone
Ever fallen in love in love with someone
Ever fallen in love in love with someone
You shouldn't've fallen in love with

I can't see much of a future
Unless we find out what's to blame what a shame

The one good thing in my life
Has gone away
I don't know why
She's gone away
I don't know where
Somewhere I can't follow her

The one good thing didn't stay too long
Woo who who who
My back was turned and she was gone
Hey hey hey

Good thing
Where have you gone
Doo doo doobie doo
My good thing
You've been gone too long
Good thing
Doo doo doobie doo

People say I should forget

It's hard - can't afford to stop
Keep on working - till you're fit to drop
Then comes the weekend and my troubles go away
Monday morning brings them back again

No, no, no I'm not satisfied
Can't there be - more to life
I can't see - reasons why

Going steady - have been a while
Ain't ready - not by a mile
I try to tell her that I'm not he marrying kind

When I'm in trouble or out of step
If my balance has been upset
Oh, there's a feeling I can't accept
There's one thing that helps me to forget
Wonder what I'm thinking
Wonder why I'm drinking
But it's plain to see,
I'm not the man I used to be

If life were easy and didn't ask,
didn't tease me or take things back
I could start to understand,
what makes me the man I am

(it's alright)

I've been looking for about an hour, for a place to drink
Trouble with this town, everyone's asleep
Me and my girlfriend, had another fight
Now she's gone and left me, in the middle of the night

It's OK, it's alright, baby's staying one more night
It's OK, it's alright, baby's staying one more night

If I've been looking for about an hour, for a place to drink

I can't stop
the way I feel
Things you do
don't seem real
Tell you what I got in mind
'cause we're runnin' out of time
Won't you ever set me free?
This waitin' 'rounds killin' me

She drives me crazy
like no one else
She drives me crazy
and I can't help myself

I can't get
any rest
People say
I'm obsessed
Everything that's serious lasts
But to me there's no surprise

Tell me what
Tell me what
Tell me what I gotta do
To make you notice
To make you look this way

What Did I have To say?

Tell me what
Tell me what
Tell me what I have to say

To keep you with me
To make you want to stay
To have you every day

Tell me what
Tell me what
Tell me what I gotta do

Are you happy
I can never tell
You keep it to yourself

I'll never be far from home
talkin' on the telephone
You told me it's over, you made up your mind,
I'm part of the life that you're leaving behind
I'm left holding the torch
and the heat from the flame,
only ease me a pain

Don't you know how much it hurts,
you took all I had and you threw it away

I'm left holding the flame, yes I am
holding the flame once again