Don't Slit Your Wrists For Me

[mousme]

Don't Slit Your Wrists For Me

HE:
I met her in the garden, she was laughing like a drain
We stood too close together, taking shelter from the rain
Shelter from her mother, and the blue-rinse fire brigade
We stood there in the garden, and she called a spade a spade

SHE:
You're all hot air and hormones as far as I can see
You think more of your lurchers than you ever do of me

CHORUS
And I wouldn't say I couldn't be your lover
Not if there was nothing else to be
But if love is what you're dying to discover, darling
Don't slit your wrists for me

HE:
She had rings on her fingers and a bone stuck through her nose
She was wearing studs in places where the gardner never goes

SHE:
People going to judge us by the company we choose
I can't be seen with somebody who's got the wrong tattoos

HE:
Well, I've been hearing voices since I was in my teens
Please don't shoot the messenger; they're coming from my genes

CHORUS
And I wouldn't say I couldn't be your lover
Not if there was nothing else to be
But if love is what you're dying to discover, darling
Don't slit your wrists for me

HE:
I met her in the garden, there was no one there to see
We were taking shelter underneath the apple tree
Shelter from her father, who was purple and insane
We stood too close together, and she punched me in the rain


BOTH:
Sex is like a chain-gang, there are no volunteers
We get handcuffed to a maniac for sixty years

CHORUS
And I wouldn't say I couldn't be your lover
Not if there was nothing else to be
But if love is what you're dying to discover, darling
Don't slit your wrists for me


--Oysterband

Comments

Other Oysterband

[rotagar.livejournal.com]

They've got a couple of other songs that might catch your fancy. Listen around, you might be surprised.

Re: Other Oysterband

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Someone just sent me this in a mix CD. Am enamoured already. Will be looking out for them. :)