Buttercup
Gee, your ma looked like shit last night
I hope that tinker-toy boyfriend tonks her right
Then again I never could tell a fist fight from fun
Maybe I've never really known anyone
Just sat still and spit in the fire
I thought I might strangle you but I couldn't find a wire
You've never been the type to make your heart clear
Least someone overhear
Words drown in your martini glass
Entire sentences slowly drunken up
But before they slipped away
I swore I coulda heard 'em say
You wanted me to be your buttercup
Say you need me to be your buttercup
The party reached a feverish pitch
Good time soldiers drunken in the ditch
Infedelity-a bomb that went off
That left the word to swerve and cough
Stepped over bodies strewn like shipwrecks
Love's last call worn and puky flecks
Faith is for that frozen few
That never met someone quite like you
Words drown in your martini glass
Entire sentences slowly drunken
But before they slipped away
I swore I coulda heard 'em say
You wanted me to be your buttercup
Say you need me to be your buttercup
Fish don't know they're short they just feel sideways
And words to you are just the same they shy away
When legs and limbs are all tucked in you will pull me close to you come night
And I just like a fleshy fruit am hung from the bough of your side
Your lips may not sell or say what your eyes give away
You're sweet as pumpkin pie
I take the keys from your hand that stutters up
Let the night air sober you up
Driving home you make me pull over
You press my hand gently as a four leaf clover
You say "Sweetheart, I'm a foolish man
I'm ornry and I'm stubborn like my coffee from a can
but without you I would shrivel up and die
Won't you be my, won't you be my, won't you be my"
Words drown in your martini glass
Entire sentences slowly drunken up
But before they slipped away
I swore I coulda heard 'em say
You wanted me to be your buttercup
Say you need me to be your buttercup
Your buttercup dutch shmuck shlucks shucks
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