John Mellencamp - Kid Inside lyrics

(One time only, [gulp] if you don't get it right this time, tough sh**, tough sh**, everybody ready, tell me when, say when your rolling here, a one, a two, a one, two, three, die) I press my face to the window I ran my fingers through my hair I watched my life go around in a circle And I realized that no body but me cares And I saw the hurt of my system And I felt the madness of our faults conforming And I walked around your house for hours And I could feel that you had me in some kinda of stranglehold And I don't know why you said those bad things about me Well it must be the way of protecting some kind of crazy pride Yeah you always direct your attention toward others And look you know, it's so easy to see that my wounds have been open wide And you can just kid the kid inside so many times You can just kid the kid till he grabs you by the throat And is choking your young a** blind And you just kid the kid till you're walking on the tightrope in my my mind?? Yeah, you can just kid the kid inside so many times Well it wasn't funny, no, when I was bleeding all over the table Yeah, now as I recall, hey it wasn't funny at all But you kept on laughing, huh, like it was some kind of party, yea Your always looking to belittle someone to make you feel tall Yea well, it's the same reaction in every situation Do you really think it's so necessary to be so mean Yeah, and it's hard for me to justify my position Yeah, when everything that I'm saying can be said bad about Mr. Springsteen, yea Yeah you know Yeah, well I really really am the first to desire you?? And I feel so badly for his misery?? Well I'll don't throw five dollars, to get into the kitty?? And I'll bet my a** that this problem isn't me Now now don't get me wrong wrong Hey now don't you feel sorry, yeah 'Cause there's no one dead or alive that I'd rather be And I've learned to deal with my mortal existence And the moral is, now don't you go believe nothing that you can't see, yeah Yeah, and you can just kid the kid inside so many times, yea (Ha ha ha, we'll keep it)