You wonder why you make girls cry You went straight for the knife And I prepared to die Your blade it shines Looked me straight in the eye You turned the gas on high Held the flame alight You wonder why I'm scared of fire

I wake up in a bad mood I always wake up in a bad mood I can never fall asleep I'm always thinkin' 'bout you What life would be if we didn't meet Open my eyes, then I'm on my feet And I wonder what you would do, yeah If you couldn't rely on me

Well if you love me honey let me hear you say Trying to get on the inside If you want me let me hear you say If you need me let me hear you say I've been standing on the outside If you love me honey let me hear you say Did I hear you say you love me

And though you don't believe that they do They do come true For did my dreams Come true when I looked at you And maybe too, if you would believe You too might be Overjoyed, over love, over me Over time, I've been building My castle of love

And experience robs me of hope Without thinking of them I said there's two kinds of men in this world and you're neither of them And his fist Cut the smoke I had an eighth of a second to wonder if he got the joke And in the car

And they said it changes when the sun goes down Around here They said it changes when the sun goes down And what a scummy man Just give him half a chance I bet he'll rob you if he can So who's that girl there? I wonder what went wrong So that she had to

I can't love you back 'cause that's a helluva love Never cheat on me 'cause I ain't regular I'm wondering if they real the way they say they are Helluva he always keep a helluva one Remember hitting licks in a Mercedes Benz And I just got my mom a new

For such a simple man I know it sounds absurd When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily Oh joyfully, playfully watching me But then

And though you don't believe that they do They do come true For did my dreams Come true when I looked at you And maybe too, if you would believe You too might be Overjoyed, over love, over me Over time, I've been building My castle of love

You're an S.M.F. Black sheep of the family, nothing like the rest Separate from the others, failing all their tests Can't they see you're different, so hungry and so lean You're a walking wonder, you're a metal machine Look and you'll see you're a lot