I hear you knocking on the door

but you ain't never comin' in, no,no


to this house no more


cause it ain't like

it ain't like it was before


you went sailin' on for that distant shore


oh, oh, oh..




True, we had love so true


oh and we had skies so blue

we had skies so blue


so I, I had my hopes up high


till all I heard was goodbye when I called for you




I turn the key, you twist the knife


I can't win

no I can't win!


now you're knockin' on the door but you can't come in


oh no.....




So you can take it on the chin


yeah you take it on your weak chin

then you do it all again and again


tell me when will it end


and now you come back

oh yeah, you crawled on back


with your head held high and your book of lies in a burlap sack


I just don't know, honey, what went wrong

love just can't grow when you're gone so long





I turn the key, you twist the knife

I can't win


no I can't win!


now you're knockin' on the door but you can't come in

oh no.....





Oh you just don't know

which way the wind is going to blow


no, you just don't know

just when the sky is going to fall




you've been a soldier

you've been a privateer


now you're looking much older

yes you are my dear


now your back again

from the lion's den

you've got a plagiarist's eye


you've got a poison pen

I turn the key, you twist the knife

I can't win


no I can't win!

now you're knockin' on the door but you can't come in

oh no....




Oh you just don't know

which way the wind is going to blow

no, you just don't know


just when the sky is going to fall



Love can bend you, love can break


hearts can mend and hearts can ache

life will give you what you take

oh! Life will give you what you take

love can bend you, love can break


hearts can mend and hearts can ache

life will give you what you take

oh! Life will give you what you take