I'm a Coward (when it comes to Love)

5/3/88 "roses and Broken Hearts" Shoreline Amphatheater, CA

Excuse me.  Is there anybody alive out there tonight? Is there anybody that can feel the spirit out
there tonight? That's good, because all I wanna know, do we have any rough, tough
San Francisco men out there tonight? Ain't talkin' about any ol' hippy boys out
there... do we have any brave, macho, noble California men out there? Let me see your
hands. Oh yeah, oh yeah! Cause I've known men who would swim rivers, that would
climb mountains, that would wrestle with a Grizzly bear. But there was one thing they
was afraid of... and I'm gonna tell you what that one thing was... what there were
afraid of was L-U-V, I'm talking about love, love scared them to death! When they got
close to love, when they got next to love, when they felt it in their hearts, they started
to run home like little babies to their mummies.

Now do we have any brave, courageous San Francisco women out there tonight? Do we
have any sweet, sexy northern California girls out there? Let me hear you girls, c'mon!
Because I'm talking to you too, tonight. That's right. It's the same thing with you
girls... you get close to that thing you love, and what do you do? You run away,
jump out of an airplane from 30,000 feet. Scared when they get next to love. Now I'm
down here tonight because what I got to say is... I HAVE SINNED!! AND I
AIN'T ASHAMED TO ADMIT IT! And I ain't here to beg for that damned
forgiveness either baby... Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Baker, Pat Robinson and them suckers
can kiss my ass now. And Jerry Falwell, he can kiss me twice... both cheeks! Because I
don't care who you bring down here... bring down the Road warriors bring down King
Kong... bring down Andre the Giant.  I'll take 'em all on, Cause I am not afraid of those things... but what
I got to confess here tonight is...I must confess that I'M A COWARD... WHEN IT
COMES TO LOVE. That's right!
    I ain't afraid of no lions...
    ...BABY when it comes to love
Now bring down old Hulk Hogan.  Bring down  King King Bundy too.  Bring down old big Mike Tyson. I'll show him what a real man can do..
     They say the tough-a get going/ yeah baby when the gong get tough...
     ...When-EN-en it comes to love
I don't know.  I went to, ah, one of those NY psychiatists ya know?  Sit in a chair. 200 bucks an hour.  I don't know now don't get the wrong idea.  Man ya see?
     You could bring on a diffrent sexy girl, yeah...