One Night Stand

"It's quarter to nine, get yourself out the window"

You're whispering softly to me

"The sunlight is screening the cracks in my ceiling

I can't let them see you in here."

Well, good morning - I've seen you. I couldn't believe that

You're walking in shame down the streets

Another mistake that I shouldn't have taken

It's Saturday morning and I'm coming home

Thousands of faces decided to call

And they're coming out strongly today

The where's and the why's and the how's

And the things that I've seen

The walk in the park only echoes the doubts

That I felt only hours before

But we're young and we're restless and often forget

The events of the evening before

(chorus)

And you're fading away

Every evening on Carnival Bay

Selling your story but never revealing the score

But why are you choosing to stay

In a prt of me every day?

Why can't you leave every time that I walk in the door?

The evening contenders and other pretenders

Surrounding you every night

They don't stand a chance because fickle romance

Has led you to think that I'm right

And it's hopeless, you're helplessly looking for something

That I couldn't give if I tried

But then you start crying and tearing your eyes into pieces

Do you wish that I'd lied?

CHORUS

You may think you're in love

But you've got a lot to learn baby

You're starting to turn them away

And you're beautiful, just if you try to stay focussed

And leave all this loneliness far from your door

When you're crying and terrified

Strung up and mystified

Thinking of me and the ways that you'd like to get even

Into the depths of your mind

And the bitter perversions you locked up inside it

But no - I won't be taken

And you can't tell me that your heart is breaking

Cos you're fading away

With every evening you made

So just go back home

And talk it over with all the fucks that you live with

Just walk back home

And out of my life