Gee your mom looked like shit last night

Hope that tinker toy boyfriend tonks her right

Then again, I could never tell a fist fight from fun

Maybe I've never really known anyone

Just sat still and spit in the fire

I thought I might strangle you but I couldn't find a wire

You've never been the type to make your heart clear

Lest someone overhear



Words drown in your martini glass

Entire sentences slowly drunk or not

But before they slipped away I swore I coulda heard

Them say you wanted me, to be your buttercup

Say you need me to be your buttercup



The party reached a feverish pitch

Good time soldiers drunk and in a ditch

Infidelity a bomb that went off

That left the world to swerve and cough



Stepped over bodies strewn like shipwrecks

Faith is for that frozen few

That never met someone quite like you



Words drown in your martini glass

Entire sentences slowly drunk or not

But before they slipped away I swore I coulda heard

Them say you wanted me, to be your buttercup

Say you need me to be your buttercup



Fish don't know they're short, they just feel sideways

And words to you are just the same, they shy away



When legs and limbs are all tucked in

You pull me close to you come night

And I just like a fleshy fruit and hung from the bowl of your side

Your lips may not sell or say

What your eyes give away

You're sweet as pumpkin pie

I take the keys from your hand that stutters up

Let the night air sober you up

Driving home, you make me pull over

You press my hand gently as a four leaf clover



You say sweetheart, I'm a foolish man

I'm ornry and I'm stubborn like my coffee from a can

But without you I would shrivel up and die

Won't you be my

Won't you be my

Won't you be my

Words drown in your martini glass

Entire sentences slowly drunk or not

But before they slipped away I swore I coulda heard

Them say you wanted me, to be your buttercup

Say you need me to be your buttercup

Buttercup, your buttercup, ducks, shnucks, shlucks, shucks