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You can fake it for a while
Bite your tongue and smile
Like every m other does an ugly child
But the stars are leaking out
Like spittle from a cloud
Amassed res entment counting ounce and pound
You're entertaining any doubt
Because you had to know that I was fond of you
Fond of Y-O -U
Though I knew your mask of dis dain
( La la la la la)
I can see that c hange was just too hard for us
Hard for us
You always had to hold the reigns, but where I'm headed
you just don't know the way
So affections fade away
And do adults just learn to play
The most r idiculous, re pulsive games
On the faith of ruddy sons
And the double-barreled guns
You better h urry
Rabbit, run, run, run
'Cause meeting you was fun
And there's a lot of hungry h owlers in this one cell
We're taking it over
The brittle thorny stems
They break before they bend
And neither o ne of us is one of them
And the tails will never mend,
Cause you had it in for me so long ago
Boy, I still don't know,
I don't know why and I don't care,
You don't hide me any more,
And you've always seen yourself hating me.
Hating me,
When I've been so much more than fair
But then you had to lay those feelings bare
One thing I know still got you scared
You're all that cold iron
And never once aired of our dead
(Couplet instrumental)
You had to know that I was fond of you
Fond of Y-O -U
So I took your lips at the time
La la la la la
And to change like that is just so hard to do
Hard to do
Don't let it whip-crack your life
And bow ou t from the fight
Cause oh, how your sisters will write
The worst part is over
Now, get back on that horse and ride.