Make Up Sex

Clear Static

Sex (Sex)
Sex (Sex)

Her heart is on her sleeve and it is looking right through me
You gently vicious slowly never felt so naked
So break me down until I fall but stop before you break it all
I never thought you'd cry, I thought that you would make it

Stop me
Not for long
Dancing from below
Stop me
Not for long
I think I might have let you go

Sex, not love
I taste it in your make up
Sex, not love
I taste in your lips
For the girls in the back while they're messing up their hair
And the boys breaking hearts pretending that they care
Sex, not love
It's only make up sex

Breaking up the silence with the things she knows
I think I might have pushed to hard for her to go
I can hardly take what my voice will make
I can't believe the time I almost had to let her know

Don't stop just get it on
Don't stop just get it on

Stop me
Not for long
Dancing from below
Stop me
Not for long
I think I might have done you wrong

Sex, not love
I taste it in your make up
Sex, not love
I taste in your lips
For the girls in the back while they're messing up their hair
And the boys breaking hearts pretending that they care
Sex not love
It's only make up sex

I think I've got it right
I think I've got it right

So stop stop me you know I cannot breathe I cannot breathe
Into your heart I cannot see
So stop me now
I think I might have let you down

Sex, not love
I taste it in your make up
Sex, not love
I taste in your lips
For the girls in the back while they're messing up their hair
And the boys breaking hearts pretending that they care
Sex, not love
It's only make up sex

Sex (Sex)
Love (Love)
Sex (Sex, sex, sex)
Love (Love, love, love)

Sex, not love
I taste it in your make up
Sex, not love
I taste in your lips
For the girls in the back while they're messing up their hair
And the boys breaking hearts pretending that they care
Sex, not love
It's only make up
It's only make up
Sex


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    i think this is an awesome song, but what about Clear Static's other songs? This band'll be huge.

    severalwayson June 12, 2007   Link

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