You can fake it for a while
Bite your tongue and smile
Like every mother does an ugly child
But the stars are leaking out
Like spittle from a cloud
Amassed resentment counting ounce and pound
You're entertaining any doubt
Because you had to know that I was fond of you
Fond of Y-O-U
Though I knew you masked your disdain
I can see that change was just too hard for us
Hard for us
You always had to hold the reigns
But where I'm headed  you just don't know the way
So affections fade away
And do adults just learn to play
The most ridiculous  repulsive games
On the faith of ruddy sons
And the double-barreled guns
You better hurry
Rabbit  run  run  run
'Cause meeting you was fun
And there's a lot of hungry howlers in this one cell
We're taking it over
Their brittle  thorny stems
They break before they bend
And neither one of us is one of them
And the tails will never mend
'Cause you had it in for me so long ago
Boy  I still don't know
I don't know why and I don't care
Well  hardly anymore
If you'd only seen yourself hating me
Hating me
When I've been so much more than fair
But then you had to lay those feelings bare
One thing I know still got you scared
You're all that cold iron
And never once aired of our dead
You had to know that I was fond of you
Fond of Y-O-U
So I took your licks at the time
And to change like that is just so hard to do
Hard to do
Don't let it whip-crack your life
And bow out from the fight
Those old pious sisters were right
The worst part is over
Now  get back on that horse and ride