Baby, seasons change but people don't
And I'll always be waiting in the back room
I'm boring but overcompensate with
Headlines and flash, flash, flash photography

But don't pretend you ever forgot about me
Don't pretend you ever forgot about me

Wouldn't you rather be a widow than a divorcee?
Style your wake for fashion magazines
Widow or a divorcee?
Don't pretend it, d-d-d-don't pretend

(We don't fight fair)
(We don't fight fair)

They say your head could be your prison
Then these are just conjugal visits
People will dissect us till this doesn't mean a thing anymore

Don't pretend you ever forgot about me
Don't pretend you ever forgot about me

Wouldn't you rather be a widow than a divorcee?
Style your wake for fashion magazines, ooh
Widow or a divorcee?
Don't pretend, d-d-d-don't pretend

We do it in the dark
With smiles on our faces
We're dropped and well concealed
In secret places, whoa
We do it in the dark
With smiles on our faces
We're trapped and well concealed
In secret places

We don't fight fair (we don't fight fair)
We don't fight fair (we don't fight fair)
We don't fight fair

We do it in the dark
With smiles on our faces
We're trapped and well concealed
In secret places, whoa
We do it in the dark
With smiles on our faces
We're trapped and well concealed
In secret places
We don't fight fair
With smiles on our faces
We're trapped and well concealed
In secret places
We don't fight fair

Don't pretend you ever forgot about me
We don't fight fair
Don't pretend you ever forgot about me
We don't fight fair


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    "Wouldn't you rather be a widow than a divorcee"

    I think it means

    "hey baby we're always going to be the same, nothings gonna change us, so wouldn't you rather death do us part .....or eventually are you going to want to forget about me and break up.

    m0rgz1eon May 28, 2009   Link

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