Oh God Babe, you've been good for me   Good when I been barely holding on   and you did what you could for me   When all the ones I counted on were gone      You picked me up in your battered blue    Volkswagen, babe   You laid me down on the mattress on the    floor that was your bed   Some wisdom in you told you   ministering to my body   Brought a temporary respite to the   demons that were screaming in my head      Oh God Babe, you've been good for me   Good when I been barely holding on   and you did what you could for me   When all the ones I counted on were gone      You see it was not the things you told    me   Though what you told me served to   make me smile   You just knew enough to hold me, and   in holding me you held off the night   a little while.      You had a beach and a cottage and    some nights that were free   You had those eyes that smiled in a    dream   But I was lost, confused and still you   seemed to see   How I was tired of running rapids, I   was trying to find an island in the stream      Oh God Babe, you've been good for me   Good when I been barely holding on   and you did what you could for me   When all the ones I counted on were gone      You see it was not the things you told    me   Though what you told me served to   make me smile   You just knew enough to hold me, and   in holding me you held off the night   a little while.