Don't make me explain Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest

Flip your shit past another lass's Humble dwelling You got your game, made your shot, and you got away

The early cars already are Drawing deep breaths past my door And last night's phrases, sick with lack of basis Are still writhing on my floor

I understand what I am still too proud to mention... to you You'll say you understand but you don't understand You'll say you'll never give up seeing eye to eye But never is a promise and you can't afford to lie

You feed the beast I have within me You wave the red flag, baby you make it run, run, run Standing on the sidelines, waving and grinning

Pale September, I wore the time like a dress that year The autumn days swung soft around me, like cotton on my skin But as the embers of the summer lost their breath and disappeared My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within

And maybe I'd relax, let my breast just bust open My heart's made of parts of all that surround me And that's why the devil just can't get around me

But all the time, all the time I'll know, I'll know And you can use my skin

You were an expert even then but not me, not yet Now all you gotta do's remind me that we met And there, you got me, that's how you got me, you taught me to regret

I took off my glasses while you were yelling at me once, more than once So as not to see you see me react Should've put 'em, should've put 'em on again So I could see you see me sincerely yelling back

What did I do? And the games that I could handle None are ones worth the candle What should I do?

You let me down

If we had a double-king-sized bed We could move in it and I'd soon forget That what I am is what I am 'cause I does what I does

I could liken you to a werewolf, the way you left me for dead But I admit that I provided a full moon

I think he let me down when he didn't disappoint me He didn't always guess right, but he usually got my gist So wait till I get him back

Does that scare you? I'll let you run away But your heart will not oblige you

Darling, give me your absence tonight

He knew he was wrong but he knew it too late But I'm not being fair

To what we know already that will keep us steady Steady Steady going nowhere Please please please

Baby said he couldn't stay, wouldn't put his lips to mine A fail to kiss is a fail to cope

I couldn't take the embrace of a real romance It'd race right through me I'm much better off the way things are

No more maladies I'm so tired of cryin' You'd think I was a siren

And you've early closed your curtains I'll wait by the backstage door While you try to find the lines to speak your mind

Baby, lay your head on my lap one more time Tell me you belong to me Baby, say that it's all gonna be alright I believe that it isn't

I'm gonna make a mistake I'm gonna do it on purpose I'm gonna waste my time 'Cause I'm full as a tick

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

And in a little while we'll only have to wave No, not baby anymore If I need you, I'll just use your simple name

Your divination should acquaint you with the plan Oh, honey (I've gone away)

I had to break the window It just had to be, it was in my way Better that I break the window Than forget what I had to say

Give us something familiar, something similar

And I could liken you to a lot of things, but I always come around

I've got to make a play To make my lover stay So what would an angel say The devil wants to know

Here's coming a better version of me Here it comes, a better version of me Here it comes, a better version of me

Try to live in a lovelier light This is not about love 'Cause I am not in love In fact I can't stop falling out

Why give it a turn? Oh, after all the folderol And hauling over coals stops What did I learn?

And if he finds himself yearning

He knew he was wrong but he knew it too late

And I don't understand, I never understand, but I'll try to understand There's nothing else I can do

I do not struggle in your web because it was my aim to get caught But daddy longlegs, I feel that I'm finally growing weary Of waiting to be consumed by you

Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine If there was a better way to go, then it would find me

And all my armor falling down, in a pile at my feet And my winter giving way to warm, as I'm singing him to sleep He goes along just as a water lily Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats

And I will try hard to hold on to you with open arms

You won't go, but I know And I pray that you will Fast as you can, baby

Fast as I can, maybe Late but at least about Fast as you can, leave me

I'm gonna get him back I am, I'm gonna get him back I really am, I'm gonna get him back I'm gonna get him back

I'm gonna waste my time

Gonna bring him home and I'll watch him unpack

I let the beast in and then I even tried forgiving him but it's too soon So I'll fight again, again, again, again, again

And you've early closed your curtains I'll wait by the backstage door While you try to find the lines to speak your mind

I was staring at the sky, just looking for a star