Oh God Babe, you've been good for me

Good when I been barely holding on

and you did what you could for me

When all the ones I counted on were gone



You picked me up in your battered blue 

Volkswagen, babe

You laid me down on the mattress on the 

floor that was your bed

Some wisdom in you told you

ministering to my body

Brought a temporary respite to the

demons that were screaming in my head



Oh God Babe, you've been good for me

Good when I been barely holding on

and you did what you could for me

When all the ones I counted on were gone



You see it was not the things you told 

me

Though what you told me served to

make me smile

You just knew enough to hold me, and

in holding me you held off the night

a little while.



You had a beach and a cottage and 

some nights that were free

You had those eyes that smiled in a 

dream

But I was lost, confused and still you

seemed to see

How I was tired of running rapids, I

was trying to find an island in the stream



Oh God Babe, you've been good for me

Good when I been barely holding on

and you did what you could for me

When all the ones I counted on were gone



You see it was not the things you told 

me

Though what you told me served to

make me smile

You just knew enough to hold me, and

in holding me you held off the night

a little while.