Lent you outsiders and my new Badu While you were thinking I didn't have a clue Tough to sort files with your voice in my head So then I bribed you downstairs with a malboro red And now I feel so small discovering you knew How much more torture would you have put me through? You probably saw me laughing at all your jokes Or how I did not mind when you stole all my smokes
And although my pride is not easy to disturb, You sent me flying when you kicked me to the curb With your battered jeans and your beasties tee Now I can't work like this with you next to me
And although he is nothing in the scheme of my years It just serves to bludgeon my futile tears And I'm not used to this, I observe, I don't chase So now I sit with consequences thrust in my face And the melodramas of my day deliver blows That surpass your rejection it just goes to show A simple attraction that reflects right back to me So I'm not as into you as I appear to be
And although my pride's not easily disturbed You sent me flying when you kicked me to the curb With your battered jeans and your beasties tee Now I can't work like this with you next to me
His message was brutal but the delivery was kind Maybe if I get this down I'll get it off my mind It serves to condition me and smoothen my kinks Despite my frustation for the way that he thinks And I knew the truth, when it came, would be to that effect At least you're attracted to me which I did not expect Didn't think you get my number down as such But I never hated myself for my age so much
And although my pride's not easy to disturb You sent me flying when you kicked me to the curb With your battered jeans and your beasties tee Now I can't work like this with you next to me (fade chorus out)