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?