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Standard Bitter Love Song #7 Lyrics
You smile at me in total defiance of all decency
You’ve got it down to science
That innocent look
You’ve got it practiced real good
But I know you’d kill me if you could stand the sight of blood
If Id a been a fly on the wall a little earlier
If I had been one of the innumerable flies in this room
If I’d a been a fly on the wall a little earlier
It woulda been real different around here
You try to speak but the buzzing's too loud
And it’s hard to make you laugh through the dense black cloud
That surrounds us both
That’s just as well
You called them up
Let the whole house go to hell
If I’d a been one of these flies
I would have lodged myself firmly underneath your eyelid
If I’d a been one of these flies a little earlier
It would have been real different around here.
You’ve got it down to science
That innocent look
You’ve got it practiced real good
But I know you’d kill me if you could stand the sight of blood
If Id a been a fly on the wall a little earlier
If I had been one of the innumerable flies in this room
If I’d a been a fly on the wall a little earlier
It woulda been real different around here
And it’s hard to make you laugh through the dense black cloud
That surrounds us both
That’s just as well
You called them up
Let the whole house go to hell
I would have lodged myself firmly underneath your eyelid
If I’d a been one of these flies a little earlier
It would have been real different around here.
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The black cloud is her exboyfriends? Because she is a horrible girl who has broken it off with many a men, and if he were just a little earlier he would've been one of them?
Er, I don't know.
To all you ancient historians out there, does this song not remind you of Claudius and Messalina? Or am I just a nerd?
She manages to smile despite how inappropriate it is for the situation. She's practiced that whole 'puppy dog eyes' look and has it perfect because she's betrayed him so many times she's learned how to look innocent. She may appear innocent, but she hates him with a passion. I'm guessing he means if he'd seen what was going on earlier (like maybe her cheating), that it would have been different. Or maybe if he'd seen who she really was, it would have been different. It's so tense that the atmosphere is just a black fog. Neither of them is actually doing anything, and it's just all going to hell.