Cause I am a black dog howling at the moon, A long winter in a cocoon, A dying man in a living room, and I know it well Can I be more than a deer in the road? Same clothes, same postcode, I don't deserve the love that I am shown, But someday I will 'Cause I, I need time, so I can be, who you need me to be, so hold out please I am the river, you're the mayflies falling, It covers all like a pink sky morning, You're shouting out into a vacuum miles away Love towers above me like a tidal wave, Reminder of the friends we couldn't save, So comes the day of reckoning like a parade 'Cause I, I need time, so I can be, who you need me to be I, I need time