As you leave please tip-toe down the backstairs of my life,
Down the backstairs of my life.
Everything is all you ever meant and said to me.
Everything you meant to me.
Could you live with all the hurt and the pain
And the tears again?
Yesterday could be a song for the years refrain.
Vacant vessel, me,
I've given all I've been outpoured,
Oh, I've been poured out.
As you leave please tip-toe down the backstairs of my life,
Down the backstairs of my life.
When you leave you take all my dreams outside my door.
Risky heart is crying more and more, encore.
In the darkness now all I can see is where we've been,
Oh, where we've been.
As you leave please tip-toe down the backstairs of my life,
Down the backstairs of my life.
Down the backstairs of my life.
Down the backstairs of my life.
The backstairs of my life.