Michael Bolton ☆ When I’m Back On My Feet Again [Album Version]

Yeah
It’s my life
My own words I guess
Have you ever loved someone so much
you’d give an arm for
Not the expression, no
literally give an arm for
When they know they’re your heart
And you know you were their armour
And you will destroy
anyone who would try to harm ’em

But what happens when karma
turns right around and bites you
And everything you stand for
turns on you, despite you
What happens when you become the main
source of a pain
“Daddy look what I made”
Dad’s gotta go catch a plane

“Daddy where’s Mommy
I can’t find Mommy where is she?”
I don’t know go play Hailie, baby
your Daddy’s busy
Daddy’s writing this song
this song ain’t gonna write itself
I’ll give you one underdog
then you gotta swing by yourself

Then turn right around on that song
and tell her you love her
And put hands on her mother
who’s a spitting image of her
That’s Slim Shady, yeah baby
Slim Shady’s crazy
Shady made me
but tonight Shady’s rocka-by-baby
And when I’m gone
just carry on, don’t mourn
Rejoice every time you hear
the sound of my voice
Just know that
I’m looking down on you smiling
And I didn’t feel a thing
So baby don’t feel no pain
Just smile back

And when I’m gone
just carry on, don’t mourn
Rejoice every time
you hear the sound of my voice
Just know that
I’m looking down on you smiling
And I didn’t feel a thing
So baby don’t feel no pain
Just smile back
I keep having this dream
I’m pushin’ Hailie on the swing
She keeps screaming
she don’t want me to sing
“You’re making Mommy cry
why? Why is Mommy crying?”
Baby, Daddy ain’t leaving no more
“Daddy you’re lying

“You always say that
you always say this is the last time
“But you ain’t leaving no more
Daddy you’re mine”
She’s piling boxes in front
of the door trying to block it
“Daddy please, Daddy don’t leave
Daddy – no stop it!”

Goes in her pocket
pulls out a tiny necklace locket
It’s got a picture
“this’ll keep you safe Daddy
take it withcha'”
I look up
it’s just me standing in the mirror
These fuckin’ walls must be talking,
cuz man I can hear ’em

They’re saying
“You’ve got one more chance
to do right”
and it’s tonight
Now go out there and show
that you love ’em before it’s too late
And just as I go to walk out of
my bedroom door
It’s turns to a stage
they’re gone
and this spotlight is on
And I’m singing
And when I’m gone
just carry on, don’t mourn
Rejoice every time
you hear the sound of my voice
Just know that
I’m looking down on you smiling
And I didn’t feel a thing
So baby don’t feel no pain
Just smile back

And when I’m gone
just carry on, don’t mourn
Rejoice every time
you hear the sound of my voice
Just know that
I’m looking down on you smiling
And I didn’t feel a thing
So baby don’t feel no pain
Just smile back
Sixty thousand people
all jumping out their seat
The curtain closes
they’re throwing roses at my feet
I take a bow and thank you all for coming out
They’re screaming so loud
I take one last look at th crowd

I glance down
I don’t believe what I’m seeing
“Daddy it’s me, help Mommy
her wrists are bleeding,”
But baby we’re in Sweden
how did you get to Sweden
“I followed you Daddy
you told me that you weren’t leavin’

“You lied to me Dad
and now you make Mommy sad
“And I bought you this coin
it says ‘Number One Dad’
“That’s all I wanted
I just want to give you this coin
“I get the point – fine
me and Mommy are gone”

But baby wait, “it’s too late Dad
you made the choice
“Now go up there and show ’em
that you love ’em more than us”
That’s what they want
they want you Marshall, they keep
screamin’ your name
It’s no wonder you can’t go to sleep

just take another pill
Yeah, I bet you you will
You rap about it, yeah, word, k-keep it real
I hear applause
all this time I couldn’t see
How could it be
that the curtain is closing on me

I turn around
find a gun on the ground, cock it
Put it to my brain
and scream “die Shady” and pop it
The sky darkens, my life flashes
the plane that I was supposed to be
on crashes and burns to ashes

That’s when I wake up
alarm clock’s ringin’
there’s birds singin’
It’s Spring and Hailie’s outside swinging
I walk right up to Kim and kiss her
Tell her I miss her, Hailie just smiles
and winks at her little sister
Almost as if to say
And when I’m gone
just carry on, don’t mourn
Rejoice every time
you hear the sound of my voice
Just know that
I’m looking down on you smiling
And I didn’t feel a thing
So baby don’t feel no pain
Just smile back

And when I’m gone
just carry on, don’t mourn
Rejoice every time
you hear the sound of my voice
Just know that
I’m looking down on you smiling
And I didn’t feel a thing
So baby don’t feel no pain
Just smile back –