Man Alone - Boy & Bear

I woke up this morning with ribbons in my bed

I could not remember how they had got there

Just the warmth of someone’s body gone

My body’s aching, my mind it cannot rest

My thoughts are vacant, there’s a rattle in my chest

Too old to be playing these games again

I was hoping to change just I never did

And now I’m kicking the cage to get rid of it

Hands full of splinters the timber in my skin

And you’d probably hate it, but I am used to it

I cannot fake it but I do

Held down in some late night bar

Where the pretty girls know who you are

Trying to find your heart in all those hopeless faces

And I was hoping to change just I never did

Now I’m kicking the cage right in front of it

I’m so sick of the rage, I can’t get rid of it

I’m with nobody to blame I’m in the thick of it

And I walk as a man alone

So what you chasing

I think it’s no going right

I guess you’d learn it in time

You’re out of time

Don’t do anything

So won’t hand me the reins for the thrill of it

You see I got what it takes just to handle it

Won’t you tell me I’m great I’m in need of it

It’s not a question of blame so stand in front of it

And I walk as a man alone

Oh I walk as a man alone

No I walk as a man alone