Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight Lyrics - Bettye Lavette

Just a minute before you leave, girl 

Just a minute before you touch the door 

What is it that you're trying to achieve, girl? 

Do you think we can talk about it some more? 

You know, the streets are filled with vipers 

Who've lost all ray of hope 

You know, it ain't even safe no more 

In the palace of the Pope 

Don't fall apart on me tonight 

I just don't think that I could handle it 

Don't fall apart on me tonight 

Yesterday's just a memory 

Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be 

And I need you, yeah 

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Come over here from over there, girl 

Sit down here. You can have my chair 

I can't see us goin' anywhere, girl 

The only place open is a thousand miles away and I can't take you there 

I wish I'd have been a doctor 

Maybe I'd have saved some life that had been lost 

Maybe I'd have done some good in the world 

'Stead of burning every bridge I crossed 

Don't fall apart on me tonight 

I just don't think that I could handle it 

Don't fall apart on me tonight 

Yesterday's just a memory 

Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be 

And I need you, oh, yeah 

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I ain't too good at conversation, girl 

So you might not know exactly how I feel 

But if I could, I'd bring you to the mountaintop, girl 

And build you a house made out of stainless steel 

But it's like I'm stuck inside a painting 

That's hanging in the Louvre 

My throat start to tickle and my nose itches 

But I know that I can't move 

Don't fall apart on me tonight 

I just don't think that I could handle it 

Don't fall apart on me tonight 

Yesterday's gone but the past lives on 

Tomorrow's just one step beyond 

And I need you, oh, yeah 

Who are these people who are walking towards you? 

Do you know them or will there be a fight? 

With their humorless smiles so easy to see through 

Can they tell you what's wrong from what's right? 

Do you remember St. James Street 

Where you blew Jackie P.'s mind? 

You were so fine, Clark Gable would have fell at your feet 

And laid his life on the line 

Let's try to get beneath the surface waste, girl 

No more booby traps and bombs 

No more decadence and charm 

No more affection that's misplaced, girl 

No more mudcake creatures lying in your arms 

What about that millionaire with the drumsticks in his pants? 

He looked so baffled and so bewildered 

When he played and we didn't dance 

Don't fall apart on me tonight 

I just don't think that I could handle it 

Don't fall apart on me tonight 

Yesterday's just a memory 

Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be 

And I need you, yeah