You've Let Yourself Go

So we're alone again tonight, I read a book, you watch the fight

A stifled yawn, a can of beer, what an enthralling atmosphere

And yet the sight of us this way, helps me to say what I must say

It helps me to think a thought or two, to pass it right along to you

And just for starters you should know I think

You've let yourself go

Down through the years each sage repeats, grass never grows on busy streets

Which might explain that balding spot, were you a thinker, which you're not

And where's that slender youth I knew, I fear he's grown an inch or two

Not up and down my joy and pride but more precisely side to side

When at a party, now and then, you tell the same old jokes again

Or wear a lampshade for a hat, who could be wittier than that

With one too many you just might, pick some unnecessary fight

Though in the morning with the sun, you can't remember what you've done

If there's regret, it doesn't show, you know

You've let yourself go

You never care the way you dress, you stay unshaven, you look a mess

The smallest thing is too much to do, I even hold the door for you

And every rose upon the shelf, is one that I've supplied myself

It's not the same, I'm well aware, yet I need to see them there

I don't know why I say it now, why I don't h