God this is hard, you've had no sleep You've thought of nothing else for weeks You begin your lines and fumble with your purse Its been eatin' you, you don't know what to do And your lie only made it worse You can't expect him to understand He's not a saint, he's just a man And you know that you can't change what you did But if you had 40 lives you'd get it right by the 39th As it is all that you can ask is all this will pa** God you wish like hell you hadn't done it And you tell him how much you regret it But you're talking to yourself You're as lonely and as desperate As a kettle boiling with no one there to get it All the words you meant to say Hang in the air then float away And vanish into the end of a dying day And if you had 40 lives you'd get it right by the 39th And as it is all that you can ask is all this will pa** Don't lie, don't lie Don't lie And if only you hadn't stayed And if only you'd been delayed And it's funny what a difference a minute makes But if you had 40 lives you'd get it right by the 39th As it is all that you can ask is all this will pa**