Please Don't Hold Back - Gutterball

40-watt bulb fills half the room

And then the other half is filled with gloom

Fontella Bass is on the stereo

I wish someone would come along and rescue me

Please don’t hold back

There’s nothing missing

There’s nothing you lack

Please don’t hold back

There’s just a few things that you can’t forget

And then you stub them out like your cigarette

Shape yourself until you think it’s right

And then you’re still afraid to go out at night

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Late at night when the city sleeps

Villains laugh and lovers weep

Eyes sealed shut and we don’t let on

That we’re counting every second until the dawn

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