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Waterproof Gold Watch Lyrics
We will lay here in the dark
I put my hands on the small of your back
you look to me and then you say
"I think it's getting late"
I don't care if you have things on your mind
as long as you have time
on your waterproof gold watch
I don't care if you have two kids at home
and a wife on the phone saying
"Where have you been?"
Oh, where have you been?
I will lay atop the sheets after you leave
I'm staring at the ceiling
my only friend's a parakeet
I watch her eat
I know you think I'm crazy
So you have got a three bedroom house and a-
two leather couches
but I can't stay over
So it seems as though the king has it made
with his two queens to lay with
and two beds to make
oh, two beds to make
I clipped my nails in an envelope sealed
to another man's wife
And I wrote those words as a sonnet to be heard
when you're leaving her at night
If I knew her well then time would only tell
until she's telling you to go
If I know you at all then it's me that gets the call
you will give her stones to throw
I lost myself
I did not mean
to go beyond
the thought
I put my hands on the small of your back
you look to me and then you say
"I think it's getting late"
I don't care if you have things on your mind
as long as you have time
on your waterproof gold watch
I don't care if you have two kids at home
and a wife on the phone saying
"Where have you been?"
Oh, where have you been?
I'm staring at the ceiling
my only friend's a parakeet
I watch her eat
I know you think I'm crazy
So you have got a three bedroom house and a-
two leather couches
but I can't stay over
So it seems as though the king has it made
with his two queens to lay with
and two beds to make
oh, two beds to make
to another man's wife
And I wrote those words as a sonnet to be heard
when you're leaving her at night
If I knew her well then time would only tell
until she's telling you to go
If I know you at all then it's me that gets the call
you will give her stones to throw
I did not mean
to go beyond
the thought
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Very obviously about being "the other woman." The only question I really have is what the final verse means. Was losing herself regret about the affair, or regret about telling the wife? And I thought the phrase "I clipped my nails" was odd--why send her fingernails? The only thing I can think of are biting one's nails in nervousness.