words and music by Jimmy Nail



since you've been gone, I've cried a river for you

but I'm just wastin' time, and wastin' water, too

I'm hanging out these nights, in these twilight worlds

with all the late-night news, and the weather-girls

no-one here but me, so I sit and cheer,

watchin' sports t.v., sipping luke-warm beer

I can take the pain, I can stand the rain

but what I cannot bear, is that bum givin' you his name



I'd like to tell all the whole wide world,

what a cryin' shame this is

but I get tongue-tied up,

just tryin' to say my name without sayin' his



what kind of a man am I? givin' up on love without a try

thought what we had was, like, a special thing,

now I find your wearin' that bum's ring!

and what kind of a girl are you,

tell me you love me then you tell him, too

guess I'll be wonderin' 'til the day I die,

what kind of man am I?



It's a cryin' shame, what's become of me

I'm not half the man, that I used to be

and it's you's to blame, with your dirty tricks

give a dog a name, you'd best beleave it sticks



I can't compete with the fancy cars

and the limousines he owns

but there's a heart beatin' ten feet tall

inside of all of this skin an' bones



what kind of a man am I? I read the papers,

let the world go by

I let him walk you right through the door,

when I should'a punched him on the jaw

and what kind of a girl are you,

tell me you love me then you tell him, too

too dumb to laugh and too proud to cry,

what kind of man am I?



instrumental solo



it's bad enough tryin' to hold my head up

on the streets of our tiny town

if