I can tell you're leaving
You used to bring me things
Now you just bring my old things back

- It was a schoolboy's mood
You choked on every bone that I threw
- So now we're through
I used to be your universe
- You're not even my Birmingham
- Just give me one more chance
You treat me like a child
- I need a man

Still I can tell it's over
You haven't made a bet
For the first time since we met

- Your "no" is not so clear
So bring those English lips back over here
I miss them more with every passing beer
- But this is just a kiss goodbye
Don't stick it for regret
- Your lips like cigarettes
Intractable
- I'm bad for your health

- Sorrow lines round my eyes
Like a prisoner chalking off the days since you left
- You're a prisoner of your own misery
- Well, you've condemned me to life
- You couldn't stand the fight
- Now like Merle Haggard you'll see
The fighting side of me

- So one last dance
They're playing our song, Lonely Night in Paris
- You blew your chance
- Give me the moon, the wine, the music, the girl and leave the rest to me
- Au revoir, mon chéri
- You say you're going but you never leave
- You fetishize your grief
- Like a clown knows a bozo(?)
- Well, I'm past(?) seeing there are more fish in the sea
- What?

- The sorrow lines round my eyes
Like a prisoner chalking off the days since you left
- You're a prisoner of your own misery
- 'Cause you've condemned me to life
- You couldn't stand the fight
- But now like Merle Haggard you'll see
The fighting side of me

- I can tell you're leaving
- You used to bring me things