All I Asked Of You - Steve Forbert

Well, I hear you talk and I hear you tell it

Well, I always get what the hell I want

But we disagree once again, my darling,

'Cause it’s clear to me that I usually don’t.

All I asked of you was a chance to make it right

right… right

I was at that house where the one armed man lived

What I saw up there was some disrepair

If I saw your heart after all weve been through

would it look to be

much the same in there?

All I asked of you was a chance to make it right

right… right

The way your sword tailed cat left the porch and showed me

what a rocking chair and a kid can do

Ill be on my way

when your clock strikes morning

down the break of day on the 5:02.

All I asked of you was a chance to make it right

right… right

This is not the way

it should be, my darling

you should be my wife

I should work all day

you should rest your mind there in bed beside me

when I get back home off the vast highway

All I asked of you was a chance to make it right

right… right.