How Now My Sweet

How now my sweet

Do you stand in the puddles

of this public disease?

I see you glide through these parties

working on strangers

with the greatest of ease.

And you wake in the morning

with a head full of cotton

and the telephone rings

It's your conscience that's calling

It knows you've been stalling

'Cause reality -- stings

Tell me what you need

always playing plastic baby -- tell me

Where's it gonna lead?

Take a look at what you have

Tell me why you're always

Crying -- you ain't got it that bad.

Your body's so tired

But your head is still wired

from the buzz of the bar room chatter

You've been working so hard and

losing sight of the things,

that really do matter.

Yes, there once was a time when

we were both blind

to the rules of taking and giving

Tell me how many times

must you get burned

Before you think about

the cost of living?

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Anytime, anytime you want

You can come to me

You will find,

There is one thing I can give to you,

that is love

Tell me, how now my sweet

Do you wade through the shallows

while you suffer and bleed?

Yeah, well the sharks are all comin'

And still you keep runnin' out to sea.

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