A stand in to battle for me To breathe To breathe for me I'm braving it briefly A hand for the one that's beneath I need I need It's swift and it's sweeping
Well fold this up There's a message somewhere And I don't know what it is And I don't know that I care And I pace myself 'Cause there's no traffic lights
brand new way to be But you can't smile through those teeth Lose yourself in the back A place that makes things seem A little dull beneath this shining silver
Casting me plaster It's dry today Can't spell disaster Can't spot the taste And I don't understand This movie of the week Counting underhand It happens
Fumble for the lightswitch Get this off without a hitch Got to know sometimes it's all hit and miss But I don't want to waste this wish Rub a lamp or
Forty more than I can take Wrap it up in cellophane Throwing out for safety's sake 'Cause they'll just think it sounds the same I'll go a day I'll go
Kill the first one that escapes From the basement A move to try and suffocate Your replacement Holding back the hand that shakes He waits for He waits
Slow dance with losing at the end While third rate lovers hone their skills Just stuck to the breaks that never bend Smoking sections still waiting for
There's a cliff You don't know where it goes I can tell her That it goes down Of all the excuses that you gave Well, that's the worse I've ever heard
Take a second, think of everything you've done You're getting warmer, while your former Blocks out the sun Standing close to the ground, a lucky charm
And it's like, she don't know much He'll tell her what she needs to know And she'd love, to start packing up If she had somewhere else to go And she
