I’m waiting for bad news to come Here on my own I know which way it’s coming from I’ve left every single light on And the doors wide open I’m hoping For bad news to come
I’m waiting for bad news to come My toes frozen numb Teeth bared to the gums Some things will always go wrong But some go nowhere I don’t care I’m just here
Waiting for bad news to come For someday or someone To somehow be begun It’s all news here yet nothing seems young And everything wrong I long for bad news
I just wanted you to want me darling I just wanted you to want me darling I just wanted you to want me darling What did you have to go and need me for?
I’m waiting for bad news to come Dismantling the hours as they roll on and on Pondering the deeds left undone The words spoken but not sung While I’m waiting for bad news to come
There’s more grey in your eyes Than there is in your hair We’ve got plenty of time I just don’t know where And it had to be you But did it have to be now And did it have to be here With bad news coming round?
I just wanted you to want me darling What did you have to go and need me for?
Now bad news sits outside And taps on the glass It says be true to my memory Don’t be true to my past And as the poetry of adolescence Meets the bullet points of adulthood There are no signposts, just suggestions And none of them any good So we wake without desire And turn our collars up to the rain Because bad news seems a lot better Than always just staying the same And now the lights are all fading And I’m tired of explaining I’m waiting and waiting And waiting and waiting
I just wanted you to want me darling What did you have to go and need me for?