Back On My Feet Songtext / Lyric

How many days will the wet weather last?

I want know will the clouds, when they roll back

Reveal a man in an old mac

Living on a park bench,

Sitting on his own?



Cut the rain as it runs down the glass

Eventually through the lightning and thunder

We see a man going under

This is how it happens

This is what he said



I don't need love though temptation is sweet

Give me your hand 'til I'm back on me feet

You're always telling me about my misery

I've seen things you will never see

Don't pity me






Focus in on the breath of a man

Who takes a brown paper bag from his knapsack

Between his whispers and wise cracks

He's looking for permission

Screaming at the sky



I don't need love though temptation is sweet

Give me your hand 'til I'm back on me feet

You're always telling me about my misery

I've seen things you will never see

Don't pity me



I'll be right again, be upright without you

I'll stand up again, kick up a fuss again too



Cut back again to a girl walking by

Until the feet that are all shoes and no socks

Climb an invisible soap box

Laughing at the traffic

Shouting at the world



I don't need love (I don't need love) though temptation is sweet (oh, so sweet)

Give me your hand 'til I'm back on my feet (yeah, back on my feet)

You're always telling me (you're always telling me) about my misery

I've seen things you will never see

Don't pity me



I'll stand up again, kick up a fuss again too

I'll be right again, be upright without you

(We see a life through the eyes of a man

As he lives and he dies by a simple tattoo)



I'll be back again when I land on my feet

I'll stand up again, kick up a fuss again - wouldn't you?

(Well there you go, though we tried hard to know him

It's there on his face; he's a case where there's clearly no hope)



Give me your hand again 'til I land again

(His face starts to fade as we pull down the shade

And the picture we made is in glorious Cinemascope)



I'll be back, I'll be back...

I'll be back...