You say you don't desire me
You only tire me
Now you'll hire me

Expensive care is meaningless
Feeling nothing and caring less
Cut off at the passion

She knows where you're headed
She wants double time
Or a temporary wedding


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And the lucky girl leads a life of leisure

With 45 years for seconds of pleasure
The hands on the clock move so precisely
And I only kiss but once or twice

I can't help you now,
I can't help myself
'Cause the time's running out

And it's twenty-five to twelve

Crowds surround loudspeakers

On the lampposts
Listening to the murder mystery
Meanwhile someone's in the classroom

Busy forging books on history
Wouldn't give that man my hand
He'd steal my fingers

So the sleuth ends up in stitches
And your urges turn to itches


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I was committed to life

And then commuted to the outskirts
I was living with thirty minutes at a time
With a break in the middle for adverts

See the human furniture
But its only for show
Now you can look all that you like

But they only let you touch and go

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