Bloodlust

Why can’t we rearrange the tectonic plates?

There’s another painted woman at the foot of the stage

Blue eyes, black thighs, you don’t give a damn

As every cheek in this room prepares to give you a hand

Cheap beer and moonlight were never enough

And every time I cried wolf, you had to call my bluff

You’d start to call me more fashionable names

I chipped my teeth on the wedding day

Bang, bang, bang goes the front door

And bang, bang, bang goes my heart to the floor

You’d be a liar if you settled for more

Oh, these are the plights of the ever-unsure

If we do this your way, it’ll never be through

We’ve got a lot to say and even less to do

Bloodlust is the ticket and contrition is fraud

You’ll have a hell of a time crawling back to the start

Build me a cradle and make it swing deep

And you can tell all the neighbors that I just went to sleep

You’d be a liar if you settled for less, oh

You’d be a liar if you settled for less, oh

You’d be a liar if you settled for less, oh

So just cut off my hands and watch me try to undress