It's been a crazy time for us
Of pushing all our limits
Snapping necks and breaking balls
Now you'd have done the same

But you were baking biscuits
While I went, bent the law
Sacrificing something
As you counted all my flaws

Why don't you come over
So why don't you come over
So why don't you come over
So why don't you come over

So why don't you come over
So why don't you come over
So why don't you come over
So why don't you come over and walk in my shoes

You want to live freely
Don't want to die
You want it?
You got it
You chase the high

You want to be out there
You want to race
You want to take over
Just gotta play

Why don't you come over
So why don't you come over
So why don't you come over
So why don't you come over

So why don't you come over
So why don't you come over
So why don't you come over
So why don't you come over and walk in my shoes

I'm a good person
Don't want to fight with no one
But you piss me off
You keep pushing, pushing

You'd best step off the gas boy
All best are off
Fuck you
You taste like toxic poison
I'll wash my hands of you

Why don't you come over
So why don't you come over
So why don't you come over
So why don't you come over

So why don't you come over
So why don't you come over
So why don't you come over
So why don't you come over and walk in my shoes
Walk in my shoes

Why don't you come over
Why don't you come over
Why don't you come over
Why don't you come over

Why don't you come over
Why don't you come over
Why don't you come over
Why don't you come over


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Why Don't You Come Over Lyrics as written by Shirley Ann Manson Douglas Elwin Erickson

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    this reminds me of certain married fling i had once, and how many times he said to me "why don't you cone over tonight?" and was always wanting to control my life outside him. especially about the "you wanna live freely..." because he used to critisize about me using drugs, while he drank as much as anyone and got his thrills by "playing" his wife. "you best step off the gas, girl..." feels like the good advice i gave myself in beginning that i obviously didn't listen to.

    basically the story ends that he can just "fuck off and die..."

    This is just what the song makes me think about. idk. i don't think it was written about cheating bastards in particular, just people who you generally can't take anymore that at one point in time could have cared about.

    LittleFolkieGurlon April 25, 2009   Link

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