Beat myself up and talk myself down   My dirty past is spread all over town   Like a black cloud   Or a demon that comes when I call   And I'll drink till I don’t know my very own name   And the block sells the memories that wound up my brain   Till the pain goes away   And I'm left feeling nothing at all      Nobody is leaving the light on for me   No use pretending that there oughta be   Someone who'll lie in my cold company   And take me as I am      And there must be a place   There must be a time   When everything started to slip out of line   And the rings on their fingers   Meant more then a cheap piece of gold   Now I don't bother to look at their hands   Nor at the women who once were my friends   I can pressure these tears   And pretend that I never grow old      Nobody is leaving the light on for me   No use pretending that there oughta be   Someone who'll lie in my cold company   And take me as I am      So leave me alone   Let me go my own way   And don't try to save me from moral decay   Just pay the next round   And I'll drink to a happy old day      Nobody is leaving the light on for me   No use pretending that there's gonna be   Someone who'll lie in my cold company   And take me as I am   And take me as I am   Who's gonna take me as I am?