The Reckoning

What’s a guy got to do to get a little bit of tenderness?

All these women are so cool like they’ve been through a holy mess

Waiting

Watching

Listening

Understanding

(As best you can)

 

Being mother to your man must be the hardest thing

To have you love turned around is so disheartening

Listening

Accepting

Waiting for the

Reckoning

(That rarely comes)

 

WHISTLING BRIDGE

 

I must have paid my dues trying to be a gentle man

It was the right thing to do – just didn’t fit the master plan

Waiting

Watching

Listening

Understanding

(As best you can)

 

What’s a guy got to do

To get a little bit of tenderness?

 

FEMALE BACKING VOX:

 

Grow up!

 

 

© Ian Lilburne 2017