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Cait Don't Need Nobody
Goodneighbor Blues · 4:13
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Reviewed lyrics for Cait Don't Need Nobody.
I learned real young not to lean on the
soul
Every hand that reached me had a prize on
the whole Mama taught me fear, daddy taught me
pain By 18 years old I was somebody else's
chain I stole my way free, put a gun
to the past Thought revenge would make the good
times last But the ghost came with me when
I walked away So I found me a bottle
and a needle to make them fade Kate don't
need nobody That's what Kate says She can fight
her own battles Put a hold to anyone who
gets in her way Kate don't need nobody
Lord, that's what she says
Found a cage in Boston where the strong survive
Picked up a shotgun and learned to stay alive
Hundred fights later, still standing somehow If you wanna
hurt me, better kill me now Kate don't need
nobody, don't know nobody, babe
She'll take your whiskey, take your caps But don't
you go offerin' her anything Kate don't need nobody
That's the way she's learned to be
Then I met a man who swore he'd never
leave I wouldn't give him what he wanted, so
he gave me grief His friends put me down
while he watched them walk away That's when I
learned a favor's just another debt to pay So
don't call it kindness, don't call it love I've
heard those pretty words and I've seen what they're
made of I got one good heart and one
life left to lose So I'll keep both behind
me and do what I choose
Then somebody asked me if I wanted to live
Like I had anything left in this world worth
to give There was a room in a vault,
a chair in a machine And for the first
time in my life I was scared of being
clean Kate don't need nobody till somebody stays Kate
don't need nobody till somebody walks through the fire
Anyway, maybe she don't need saving Maybe she just
needed proof That somebody could stand beside her Never
ask her for the news Now the bottle's gone
quiet The needle's gone cold And I ain't sure
what the future's got in store But I looked
in the mirror And didn't turn away And that's
something I couldn't do yesterday Kate don't need nobody
But maybe, just maybe
She don't have to do it all alone I'm
not alone.