Read on baby, what you're gettin in to   It's livin on pain, the thing that's getting to you   Write my name, painted up my picture   Say it's the only thanks I'm not around (around)   Beaten and battered   Well if my dreams get shattered, then   Pain gives my the right to be unkind   Wait on baby which with some indevotion   I trade a river of tears for just a little emotion   You can curse my name, painted up my picture   Say it's the last time that I'll be around (be around)   Oh well I'm torn and tattered,   Saw the thoughts in my head be scattered, well   Pain gives my the right to be unkind yeah   And it sets me      Chorus:   Right back to the heart of it   Joan's crazy is a sly defense from it   Joan's crazy is a place I call my own, when I'm alone      Read on baby, what you're gettin in to   I swear once that it was the little things that mattered   But it all seems true to you   Say the hell with my name, and say the hell with my picture   Yeah but swear the one time you need me around, be around, I'm around right now well   I'll stand like it matters   Only once got screwy things got scattered by the rain   Pain gives me the right to be unkind      (chorus) x 3