Lyrics

Did I strangle you with my love? Think I saw it wrapped around your throat The last time I saw you, you looked so pale And white just like a ghost It was fun for about five little minutes And then you cleared your throat My eyes swelled up, I curled my toes And you said I almost choked And you said I almost choked But honey why did you go Behind the bunhouse? Didn't you know how much I had to give? You knocked me over the head With a rolling pin And then you got down and you kissed me in the ribs The penny dropped even before I clocked Just where your hands had been It's like you'd done your hair for somebody else Scared that you might have been seen I slipped down a flight of stairs And my face must have looked so long Cos even the tosser with the saxophone Was asking me what's wrong He said 'buddy, what is wrong?' Honey why did you go Behind the bunhouse? Didn't you know how much I had to give? You knocked me over the head With a rolling pin And then you got down and you kissed me in the ribs Please won't you spare me the details Before I get up and I go Who was it that stabbed me in the back Or do you think I ought not to know? You see the way I was before we met I was curled up in a shell And if I'm not counting planes up in the sky Then I'm falling down a well I'm at the bottom of a well Honey why did you go Behind the bunhouse? Didn't you know how much I had to give? You knocked me over the head With a rolling pin And then you got down and you kicked me in the ribs Part 2 The boy who cried wolf couldn't take it anymore They all tried to help but he'd heard it all before Now he sits in a room with a lock on the door Holding pictures in his arms and staring at the floor But boy, you don't look a day over twenty one But you already feel like half your life has gone And you're close to the edge but you're hanging on Do yourself a favour, don't do yourself any harm And you want to tell your story but you don't know where to start Well, your mother's pretty lonely but she don't have a heart And you met the rich and famous and they're screwed up the same Even "love will tear us apart" don't ease the pain You can wipe the blood from your shoes and the tear from your eye But the scars on your arms, well, they're harder to hide Drawing on a cigarette, hoping your head will clear Is like rubbing on a lamp untill a genie appears And the last time you counted you were twenty three But you still don't know who you want to be And all of your heroes took their own lives Do yourself a favour and take my advice Oh you want to tell your story but you don't know where to start Well, your mother's pretty lonely but she don't have a heart And you met the rich and famous and they're screwed up the same Even "love will tear us apart" don't ease the pain Oh boy, you don't look a day over twenty one But you already feel like half your life has gone And you're close to the edge but you're hanging on Do yourself a favour, don't do yourself any harm And you want to tell your story but you don't know where to start Well, your mother's pretty lonely but she don't have a heart And you met the rich and famous and they're screwed up the same Even "love will tear us apart" don't ease the pain