I appreciate your sweet kind words and girl you're looking Good tonight Had you come around not too long ago I'm sure we'd had us a time But I got someone givin' me more love than I'll ever need Girl you got to understand It'd be like givin' water to a drowning man Building a fire and the desert sand Tellin' old Noah all about the flood Catfish hearing bout the Mississippi mud You want to give me lovin' and I'm sure that you can But it's like givin' water to a drowning man Lots of pretty women in this town but I don't give a Second look It's just a waste of time staring at the cover when you've Already read the book Cause ever since the day we met I've been in over my head No one loves me like she can It'd be like givin' water to a drowning man Tellin' Merle Haggard bout a one night stand Cussin' at the devil preachin' at the choir Throwin' a lighted match on a raging fire My baby gives me more love than any one man can stand It'd be like givin' water to a drowning man [ Guitar ] Yeah I got someone givin' me more love than I'll ever need Girl you got to understand It'd be like givin' water to a drowning man... It'd be like givin' water to a drowning man...