Five Small Words

Maybe you'll recognize in time

Maybe one day you will discover

All the pain that lies behind

You and your unfortunate love

Somebody might be more

Unsuitable and strange

With eyes that offer everything

And are capable of danger

My mind turns over lies you told

Things said to your other lover

Sweet as they had been to me

You lay there telling them to each other

Now I stand outside the door

My head is filled phrases

Inside someone's calling out

Their voices rise with praises

Five small words

Don't you want me anymore

Five small words

Well who is keeping score

Coward that you are you would faithlessly implore

Baby please don't leave me

Why don't you believe me

Why did you deceive me

It didn't take some shiny dagger

Tattooed fingers grip and hone

I walked under some dark ladder

Heard your final loving moan

All your indiscretions are

So merciful and brief

Genteel poison sprinkled on your Spanish handkerchief

Five small words

Don't you love me anymore

Five small words

Well who is keeping score

Coward that you are you would so faithlessly implore

Baby please don't leave me

Why don't you believe me

Why did you deceive me

Maybe in time you'll want me more

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