Man And Wife, The Latter (Damaged Goods)

I'm growing out my hair

like it was when I was single

it was longer than I've known you

I had no money then

I had no worries then at all

{But with} such a high standard of living

I just feel like I am dying

I start an argument

but you can barely even talk

There's good reason for your silence

{you} have to take care of some business

so I fix your plate

and I stay out of the way

But you'll stay like that forever

right in front of your computer

you'll look up one day

but you won't recognize me

So you want to change?

read a letter from a lawyer

want to take me out to dinner

you want to bury me under a mound of shopping bags

Like it'd really make a difference

or make up for your disinterest

I'm a bill you pay

I'm a contract you can't break

And it's like I'm under water

or on an endless escalator

I just go up and up

but I don't ever reach the top

And it reads just like the bible

twenty centuries of scandal,

yeah, it all depends on how you interpret it

The word is love

The word is loss

The words are damaged goods that's what I am

A lifetime gets chalked up to an experience

coincidence

we're chained to the events

that's it