Now girls, do you hate men?   Well you know, sometimes you just don't talk to them   And that's sad    ‘Cause I can see tenderness in your faces   And innocence straight from infant days   And there must be tenderness deep inside   Oh you're so cold, but it still shows      Well I can take a vacant stare   Well it's so much to say    Now, it seems a waste   But if you don't want me to know   What’s going on inside   Just tell me now and I'll go      You told me about school   I only want to know about you   And I'm hungry for it now   I'm starving for it now   And now you know      But if you care about me   (Tell me now)   If I'm better than the wall   (Tell me now)   If it's important that I touch your arm at night   You’d better   Tell me now      You know, I've just read some writers now   From the old days   Because I knew, I knew that they'd understand   That’s right   Because dignity and tenderness    Right, should apply (they could apply)    To modern romance, yeah.       So don't tell me dear, don't tell me any words   About your school, or your homework now   I’m not going to be interested in stories    About your stupid pet cats (so, what do I care now?)   Just talk about love, or sex, or starving hearts, or just shut up   And I'll go      But      If you care about me now    (Tell me now)   If I'm better than the wall now    (Tell me now)   If it's important when I touch you're hand   (Tell me now)   If you care about being alone at all   (Tell me now)   If it hurts, to be alone in your kitchen    The way you've been staying over these past few months   (Heh, better tell me now)   If it hurts to not be honest with yourself   The way you have been the past few years (it seems)   (Then tell me now)       Because uh, I’ve been starving for warmth   You never give me any warmth oh   You can't hide anymore,   Or take drugs,   Or smoke cigarettes   Or have alcohol   Or make up all this other bullshit that you use in your life   In your life, so I can't see you clear   In your life, you know I can't see you clear, in your life   You know I can't stay this way   Stand to hurt this way   Plan to go to bed alone   And to feel the pride inside and hurt   Then to feel while you go to waste   Then to feel this way   Alone in the dark   All alone in the dark, I stand   All alone I stand   I stand in the dark outside your door   And I wait to see if I should go inside   Because it hurts when you don't talk to me   And we just pretend   That’s right we just pretend   Then I won't have it anymore, never   I’ve had it, yeah.       Because, I can't stand to be alone at night   And I can't stand to pretend to be together at night.   Oh    You can't hide,   Take drugs with me   Smoke cigarettes   Or alcohol   Or this other shit that you use in life   So I can't see you clear, I want to see you clear   You got to say it now   If you care about me then you'd better tell me now   Yeah, oh, oh, yeah      See dear, I know how beautiful death is   And I know why you hate life   But I'm just now, a tender soul   And be glad you know      You see,    All men are just tender souls   And be glad I told you   And be glad that you know