[Pre-Chorus 1 : Male lead, female backups and harmonies] There you go… Again. Slamming the door. And. As the silence grows… …It was worth it though. This ebb and flow, is the only way to catch a glimpse, of… …the girl I know. [thick 4-bar cello solo] [Chorus 1: Male lead, female backups and harmonies] The girl that slips out to me, sometimes, in the wee Hours of the moonlight, when… the rocks …run …low. Leaving the fiends behind, [emphasis on ‘stem’ and not ‘her’] clutching her stem. My lighter …already Just-as-tightly-clutched …in-her-other-hand. …and Some …times …through-the-cacophony… …I see the spark …of …the girl I know. [BRIDGE 1 : female lead, male backups and harmonies] But as it goes, it always goes. [emphasis on ‘purchase’] A fight gains purchase, and… …grows …as the rocks run …low. [4-bar cello solo] …B …for a moment For a moment, Doll, …you’re mine …until the storm arrives. Thunder rollin’ in, …and then!… …like-lightning!! [Pre-Chorus 2 : Male lead, female backups and harmonies] You’re attacking. Hammering. I’m taking it, on the chin. Accepting it, apologizing. Until I’ve had enough, of …you …Attacking-over-nothing. And, When it won’t stop, I stand up to you. [emphasis on nailing ‘too’] My truth stands up too! And with it what you’ve done. Doll… And, as it goes when the truth gets loose, You give up, and, [pause] …Vamoose-You-Run-a-way, It’s hap-pen-ing …again. It happens every day!!! I saw the wreck, before I saw the train that wrecks …every-day! [pause] [Chorus 2 : Male lead, female backups and harmonies] [Emotional, breaking voice with emphasis on every occurrence of ‘rage’] And then I rage, and I rage, and I rage. [escalating, building, wild, shouting voice with emphasis on every occurrence of ‘rage’] And I rage. I rage! …I rage! [maximum intensity with emphasis on every occurrence of ‘rage’] I rage! I goddamn fucking RAGE!!!!!!! [Bridge : Male lead, female backups and harmonies] One day I wish you’d find the grace. Your courage and speak your truth, to my face. And stay… [emphasis on tenderly pronouncing ‘Doll’] And stay …Doll… and stay Stay. …don’t run a…way… [emphasis on tenderly pronouncing ‘Doll’] Set your truth free …and stay … Right here …with me, …Doll. Caressing the tiny hairs at the nape of your neck, Doll. You remember me now, Doll. (…I’m the Love that stays …) [emphasis on enunciation, with distain, on ‘men’] (…outlast all of those boys you call men…) [pre-Chorus 1 : Male lead, female backups and harmonies] You run from my truth. Like a vampire flees the sun. You know that… …I’m the one. With the Love that stays. I saw the wreck before the trains, piling into yesterday’s wreckage! …every …fucking …day!!! …And it don’t …mean-nothin’! (…I’m the Love that stays …) (Will it be enough?) [Chorus 1 : female lead, male backups and harmonies] [slow and tender] Mmmmm… mmmm… Another day, a thousand sins… …it happens again… [Male lead, female backups and harmonies] (…I’m the Love that stays …) (It’s everything I’ve got) [Chorus 2 : Male lead, female backups and harmonies] [Emotional, breaking voice with emphasis on every occurrence of ‘rage’] And then I rage, and I rage, and I rage. [escalating, building, wild, shouting voice with emphasis on every occurrence of ‘rage’] And I rage. I rage! …I rage! [maximum intensity with emphasis on every occurrence of ‘rage’] I rage! I goddamn fucking RAGE!!!!!!! [emphasis on ‘strongest’ and intense passionate wailing on ‘heart’] Because, I’m the one with the strongest goddamn Heart!! (…you have it, too…) (Don’t know how to use it) [Bridge 2 : duet, harmony, slow, male and female harmonious authentic whispered spoken word] …and it’s just loud noise, doll. I know it’s just pain …lashin’ at circumstance-mutinied, having lost the call. [male] My thunder, your lightning. [Female] Overwhelming …fright-en-ing. [male and female harmony] It’s …not …your …fucking …fault. [male and female harmony] I know you’re hurt badly. Me too. [male and female harmony] I forgive you for the things [male and female harmony] You were too proud…, …to say.. [male and female harmony] Can you forgive me, Doll? (…I’m the one with the Love that stays…) (Can I stay too?) Can you forgive the things I do …when I rage. Can you forgive the things I’ve said … Doll? Stay… …can I stay too?
