God this is hard, you've had no sleep, You've thought of nothing else for weeks You begin your lines, you thumble with your purse It's been eating you, You don't know what to do And your lie, only made it worse [Pre-chorus] You can't expect him to understand He's not a saint, he's just a man And you know, That you can't change what you did [Chorus] But if you have forty lives You get it right by the thirty-ninth As it is, All that you could ask All this will pass [End of Chorus] God, you wish like hell You hadn't done it and you tell Him, how much you regret it But you're talking to yourself You're as lonely and as desperate as a Kettle boiling, with no there to get it [Pre-chorus] All the words, you meant to say Had in the air and flown away And vanished, Into the end of the dying day [Chorus] But if you have forty lives, You get it right by the thirty-ninth And as it is, All that that you could ask All this will pass [Pre-chorus] And if only I had've stayed, And if only had been there rain And it's funny, What a difference then that it makes [Chorus] But if you have forty lives, You get it right by the thirty-ninth And as it is, All that that you could ask All this will pass