What Kind Of Man Am I? Lyrics - Jimmy Nail

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? 

guitar solo 

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

on the streets of our tiny town 

if ther's a God up in heaven, 

I wonder if he'd send a bolt of lighting down? 

what kind of a man am I? 

I'd love to tell you but I'm too damn shy 

I stood an' let him give me all that grief, 

when I should'a kicked him in the teeth! 

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?