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