[00:20.87]You can fake it for a while
[00:22.78]Bite your tongue and smile
[00:23.72]Like every mother does an ugly child
[00:28.66]But the stars are leaking out
[00:30.60]Like spittle from a cloud
[00:32.40]Amassed resentment counting ounce and pound
[00:36.46]You're entertaining any doubt
[00:38.96]Because you had to know that I was fond of you
[00:42.57]Fond of Y-O-U
[00:45.14]Though I knew you masked your disdain
[00:50.75]I can see that change was just too hard for us
[00:54.36]Hard for us
[00:56.79]You always had to hold the reigns
[00:59.60]But where I'm headed  you just don't know the way
[01:06.93]So affections fade away
[01:08.90]And do adults just learn to play
[01:10.48]The most ridiculous  repulsive games
[01:14.91]On the faith of ruddy sons
[01:16.70]And the double-barreled guns
[01:18.52]You better hurry
[01:19.33]Rabbit  run  run  run
[01:22.82]'Cause meeting you was fun
[01:25.25]And there's a lot of hungry howlers in this one cell
[01:28.11]We're taking it over
[01:30.54]Their brittle  thorny stems
[01:32.44]They break before they bend
[01:34.24]And neither one of us is one of them
[01:38.58]And the tails will never mend
[01:41.02]'Cause you had it in for me so long ago
[01:44.64]Boy  I still don't know
[01:46.88]I don't know why and I don't care
[01:50.26]Well  hardly anymore
[01:52.82]If you'd only seen yourself hating me
[01:56.49]Hating me
[01:58.86]When I've been so much more than fair
[02:01.61]But then you had to lay those feelings bare
[02:06.17]One thing I know still got you scared
[02:10.04]You're all that cold iron
[02:12.17]And never once aired of our dead
[02:52.98]You had to know that I was fond of you
[02:56.40]Fond of Y-O-U
[02:58.67]So I took your licks at the time
[03:04.68]And to change like that is just so hard to do
[03:08.21]Hard to do
[03:10.52]Don't let it whip-crack your life
[03:13.59]And bow out from the fight
[03:18.13]Those old pious sisters were right
[03:21.87]The worst part is over
[03:23.93]Now  get back on that horse and ride