[Verse 1]
This would have not 've happened
If I hadn't missed my plane
I would've been there when they told you
I'm the rat within the grain
Within this big misunderstanding, now
We'll be misunderstood
I'm thinking someone's trying to fuck with me, and
Set fire to my wood

[Chorus]
I wouldn't want you to want
To be wanted by me
I wouldn't want you to worry
You'd be drowned within my sea
I only wanted to be wonderful,
In wonderful is true, in truth
I only really wanted to be wanted by you

[Verse 2]
This stupid situation now,
Where everything goes wrong,
If you can't tell I am lying
Then you do not belong
In my bed go rest your head
Upon the bones of a bigger man
He can cover you with rockwool,
And you can close up like a clam

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
So go play with your piano,
Write a mediocre song,
Out of the shell of mediocrity,
And pretend there's nothing wrong
I never thought you were a chicken shit,
I never thought of you at all
Until you asked me to be part of it,
Now you're showing me your wall

[Chorus]

In truth,
I only really wanted to be wanted by you


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    this is probably my favorite damien rice song

    adam1986on November 20, 2006   Link

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