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Well, there's an old man's fantasy

Put in a young girl's mouth

Like cheap pink lipstick

Smeared on her wedding dress


Will you look what you've done to her

Will you look at this disgrace

Oh, it's all over

Your suffering face


If we were chrome, we would be rusted

If we were thirst, we would be quenched

You don't need the same old rivet gun

You need a brand new wrench


Someone to pull you down on the ground

And cover you with kisses

Once I was the jewel of your heart

Now I'm only semi-precious


But if I seem so preoccupied

It's just my alibi, I'm all broken up inside

Even the words of love seem cruel and crass

When you're tough and transparent as armoured glass



I prepared a bed for you

Then I sprayed perfume

Upon the wilted roses

That I'd scattered 'round the room



You came in gentle as a lamb

And turned into a terror

And you left your love and other threats

In the steam fading on my bathroom mirror


But it's an old man's fantasy

Put in a young girl's mouth

Like cheap pink lipstick

Smeared on her wedding dress



Will you look what you've done to me

Now you've put me in my place

And it's all over

It's all over

It's all over

Your suffering face