I clench my face as poor baby gives chase
To painful recollections time can never erase
As the city sleeps my poor baby weeps
For the fly by night father I can never replace
Wanna see you laugh, wanna see you smile
Wanna see you here with me
All I want to be in this life
Is poor baby's man
To wake up beside her with my arm across her shoulder
Every morning for the rest of my days
Now I perceive what poor baby believes
That no man in the world can do more than deceive
She self disgusts and won't give me her trust
Now it's getting hard pretending I don't know I ought to leave
Didn't want to go, didn't want to hurt you
But gotta save myself
All I want to be in this life
Is poor baby's man
To painful recollections time can never erase
As the city sleeps my poor baby weeps
For the fly by night father I can never replace
Wanna see you laugh, wanna see you smile
Wanna see you here with me
All I want to be in this life
Is poor baby's man
To wake up beside her with my arm across her shoulder
Every morning for the rest of my days
Now I perceive what poor baby believes
That no man in the world can do more than deceive
She self disgusts and won't give me her trust
Now it's getting hard pretending I don't know I ought to leave
Didn't want to go, didn't want to hurt you
But gotta save myself
All I want to be in this life
Is poor baby's man