Lyrics

I Need You Most The While
Music and Lyrics by Natalie Gelman and Charlie Midnight

Pack up my nerve
Keep on walking on my way
Keep on breathing one more day
Because you said so
What can I sing?
Something that will sway the crowd
Something real slow or real loud
You’ll let me break my heart before you’ll ever tell me that you love me

Chorus
And I need you like young lovers need the spring
Like a June bride needs the ring
Like my heart needs to beat
Like the rhythm needs my feet
Come down easy for a while
See if you can make me smile
It’s been hard to keep on going
‘Cause I need you most the while

All of these words
Could just sit here on the page
Or I’ll use them all up in a rage
While I try to get you to listen
What’s in a note?
What’s in all the notes in the world?
Besides broken hearts of all the young boys and girls
Who strummed away their dreams until they had none

And I need to you like the rainbow needs the sky
Like a hello needs goodbye
Like a song needs your ears
Like the music needs your tears
But it goes down easy for a while
‘Til it’s all I can do just to smile
And it’s hard to keep on going
‘Cause I need you most the while

I feel so small, I feel weighed down
It’s the same lost faces but a different town
You lift me up but then you walk away …all I’m trying to say…

Is I still need you like the stars need the night
Like the shadows need the light
And my life needs the pain
Cause I want you to know my name
But it goes down easy for a while
As I sing to make you smile
And it’s hard to keep on going
‘Cause I need you most the while

But I go down easy for a while
While I try, and try, and try to make you smile
And it’s so hard to keep on going
But I need you most the while