'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