Cure For Bad Deeds

Just a few more days 'till spring
And I'm crossing my fingers
Oh let the snow melt into rain
The city is deserted
As if everybody hurt it
This town doesn't want us around here today
And I've got that feeling my life is caving in
I can't help but feel that way

So don't even tell me that all in good time
That I'll be just fine

I'd feel so much better if you'd loosen my tether
As I'm tossed about, your cold white ball
I'd get on the freeway, won't stop driving 'till next Tuesday
And put a thousand miles between us or more
I know that's not possible, all the streets here run in circles
I wouldn't even make it out of the car

So don't even tell me that all in good time
That I'll be just fine
Don't even try to ease my mind
Oh don't waste my time

If I do get through this
I promise you this
Next time around I'll get it right
I'll walk through your ghost town
In nothing but my night gown
And you can blow with all your might
And I'll face you smiling
Whether dying or surviving
But for now I just got to make it through tonight

So don't even tell me that all in good time
That I'll be just fine
Don't you try to ease my mind
Oh don't waste my time
Don't even tell me
That I'll be just fine
'Cause I know I'm not fine
Don't ask me to try and be kind
Because it's personal this time

Trying to read her palm
With a clenched fist
Calling out for whatever's in store
Asking: "God, did the Devil put you up to this?
Whatever it is, I can't take it any more,"

She says "I'm gonna make
Something of myself tonight
God and the Devil, I'll show you up
I can fight back and I just might
Your tempting business isn't
All that tough,"

She's thrown all caution to the wind
Hoping to catch it in her sails
When her ship comes in
But this ship won't float
No, it just don't

Parading around town
With her open wounds
Saying: "hush now, don't tell a soul,"
Any charity will come too soon
"I can get through this on my own,"
And she's recruiting sympathy like it's an army
And as the front lines fall, she brings new lines up
She says: "keep on your tip-toes, boys
My tissue's scarring,"
Collecting pity like change in a cup

And she's thrown all caution to the wind
Hoping to catch it in her sails
When her ship comes in
But this ship won't float
No, it just don't

She won't make it worth her while
She won't let it get her down
Just try hard to keep that smile
But it's just an upside-down frown

I said make it worth your while
I said let it get you down
Why try so hard to keep that smile
When it's just an upside-down frown?

Trying to read her palm
With a clenched fist
Calling out for more
Saying, "God and the devil
You won't get away with this
When my ship comes in
I'll win this war

God and the devil
You haven't seen the end of this
When my ship comes in
I'll win this war,"

He shot just like a comet
Into my orbit
He sparked and spread like a forest blaze
Took over like a teenage craze
And ma said,
"Tina, he was worth the wait,'
She thinks that I've
Made a grave mistake

Oh God, look at what I've done
I've pulled it all apart, just for fun
Just to see if it would come undone
Now it's all come undone

Last time that he saw me
It was way back in February
And he was smoking like a chimney
He had me swaying like a daisy
When he said,
"Happy Valentine's day, babe,"
And I took the heart-shaped box
And I walked away

Oh God, look at what I've done
I've pulled it all apart, just for fun
Just to see if it would come undone
Now it's all undone

Now I stay out late at night
I do what the heck I like
Adventurousness is alright, I guess
But I like it less and less
And hey, well, that's exactly
What he warned
He said, "If you think this happens every day, babe
You've got a lot to learn,"

Oh God, look at what I've done
I've pulled it all apart, just for fun
Just to see if it would come undone
Just to watch it all come undone

Just to see it all come undone
Now it's all come undone
Yeah, it's all come undone

When I strip for my window
The audience is always easy
And when I kiss my pillow
At least I know what he sees in me
I could be seductive
But I'm just not seductive
I'm not the mystery
That you made of me
So I've boarded up the windows of my palace
So I've grown accustomed to rose coloured glasses
I called all the local papers
Saying look what he did to me
Look what he said to me
Don't take this guy seriously
Still I find myself on my knees
Repenting relentlessly
For what he didn't find in me
For what I didn't turn out to be
He says I boarded up the windows of my palace
That I've grown accustomed to rose coloured glasses
So I live the life in pink
So I'm different than you think
So I'm not so outrageous
I'm not so outrageous
There was a time I was mighty
When I stood as tall as I can
Yeah, once I was mighty
Now you've made even smaller than I am
'Cause I've boarded up the windows of my palace
I've grown accustomed to rose coloured glasses
So I live the life in pink
So I'm different than you think
I'm not so outrageous
So I couldn't do what you did
I'm a little more timid
I'm not so courageous
I'm not so courageous
Once I was mighty
Once I was mighty

In uncharted door wells
Necks wrap around necks
Blood vessels burst to make a necklace
I'm pushed into darkness
By a relentless pelvis
Oh how makeshift, how reckless
It's like eggs over easy
Bottomless coffee
Oh won't you force feed me
Something so greasy
Give me that counterfeit affection
Your on sale, bargain bin love
If I close one eye
Look up at the sky
The moon the size the colour of a shiny new dime
With no depth perception
It's tough to imagine
This mistake I want to make just one more time
It's like eggs over easy
Bottomless coffee
Oh won't you force feed me something sleazy
Give me your counterfeit affection
You're on sale, Bargain-bin love
And we roll in doors
Like we've just been washed ashore
And my smudged grin gives us away
And the smoke is congregating between floor and ceiling
We've got so much to do so little to say
I need another drink
A screw driver I think
So I ooze over to the counter
I look the man in the eye
And on an in-drawn sigh
I place my order
I say give me your eggs over easy
Bottomless coffee
Oh won't you force feed me something so sleazy
Give me your counterfeit affection
You're on sale bargain bin love

You try to open me up like a music box
You think you'll here some sweet song
I just erupt like vesuvius
Like you said something horribly wrong
Why is it
The one I get fed up with
Is the one that I can't do without
You're nothing but good to me
And I keep exploding
Can't even remember what it was about
Call the authorities
Call the powers that be, yeah
Call security
and tell them what's happened to me, yeah
Yeah
It's like I was stuck In this amusement park
And I am less amused all the time
It's like I played all the games
And went on all the silly rides
Feel like I went up too high
I was spun round too many times
'Cause I can't help feeling sick
And tired
Call the paramedic
Get some one to do something, yeah
Call a mechanic
I think I'm malfunctioning, yeah
Call wolf
Call wolf,
Yeah, yeah.
Call horror, call terror, call bloody murder
Call wolf