You know it's a long walk home  Don't think that you have to go  Better here than on your own  Better me than all alone    In your youth time was on your side  But the years have not been kind  Where once you could always choose  Here tonight I'll have to do    It's hard to view someone like you  Encumbered by your past  So throw that yoke upon the back  Of somebody designed for that    You're sharp tongued and armed to the teeth  Oh but don't point that thing at me  I'm as far from beautiful  As I am dependable    It's hard to view someone like you  Encumbered by your past  So throw that yoke upon the back  Of somebody designed for that    You pine to climb in someone's arms  It doesn't matter whose  A king would yield his scepter   For a warm body to use