AFGHAN WHIGS
GENTLEMEN

@ If I Were Going

What should I tell her?
She's going to ask
If I ignore it, it gets uncomfortable
She'll want to argue about the past
Still I think she believes me
Every word I say
I think I'm starting to believe it
All myself
Go ask the gentlemen who play it
But hate to pay
And it don't bleed, and it don't breathe
It's locked its jaws and now it's swallowing
It's in our heart, it's in our head
It's in our love, baby, it's in our bed
It holds my harm down, sits upon my chest
It waves its finger at me every night and day
And it don't rest
And it don't breathe, and it don't bleed
It's locked its jaws and now it's swallowing
It's all a lie, it's nearly dead
It's in our hope, baby, it's in our bed


@ Gentlemen

Your attention, please
Now turn off the light
Your infection, please
I haven't got all right
Understand, do you understand?
Understand, I'm a gentlemen
I stayed in too long
But she was a perfect fit
And we dragged it out so long this time
Start to make each other sick
But now I got time for you
For you, you, you and me too
Well, come and get it, come and get it
'Cause I'm done
Understand, do you understand?
Understand, I'm a gentlemen
I waited for the joke, it never did arrive
And words I thought I smoke
Let me in I'm cold
All messed up but nowhere to go
You got indecision, and indecision is my enemy
Unlock the cabinet hey, hey, hey
I'll take whatever you got
Now I'm on it, now I'm on it
And you're done
I waited for the joke, it never did arrive
And words I thought I'd choke
I hardly recognize


@ Be Sweet

Ladies, let me tell about myself
I got a dick for a brain
And my brain is gonna sell my ass to you
Now I'm OK, but in time I'll find
I'm stuck
'Cause she wants love, and I still want to fuck
Now that I'm ashamed, it burns
But the weight is off
Now that you're out of the way
I turned and I can walk
You showed no simpathy, my love
And tih was no place for you and me to walk alone
On my grave, am I OK?
I'm sure I'm not
Ladies let me tell you about my love
She kept giving me more
But it wasn't enough
So understand noe
That I come to you
To understand my little self
To understand my little self
And baby you be sweet


@ Debonair
Hear me now and don't forget
I'm not the man
My action would suggest
A little boy, I'm tied to you
I feel apart
That's what I always do
This ain't about regret
My conscience can't be found
This time I won't repent
Somebody's going down
Feel it now and don't resist
This time the anger's better that the kiss
I must admit when so inclined
I tend to lose it than confront my mind
And it don't bleed, and it don't breathe
It's locked its jaws and now it's swallowing
It's in our heart, it's in our head
It's in our love, baby, it's in our bed
Tonight I go to hell
For what I've done to you
This ain't about regret
It's when I tell the truth
And once again the monster speaks
Reveals his face and searches for release
A little boy is tied to you
Attracted only 'til it comes unglued


@ When We Two Parted

Baby, I see you've made yourself all sick again
Didn't I do a good job of pretending?
You're saying that the victim doesn't want it to end
Good
I get to dress up and play the assassin again
It's my favourite
It's got personality
I should have seen this shit coming down the wall
Every night I spent in that bed with you facing the wall
If I could have only once heard you scream
To feel you were alive instead of watching you abandoning yourself
Baby you can open your eyes now
And please allow me to present you with a clue
If I inflict the pain then baby only I can comfort you
Out of the night we come into the night we go
If it starts to hurt you then you have to say so


@ Fountain And Fairfax

Angel, I'm sober
I got off that stuff just like you asked me to
Angel, come closer
So the stink of your lies, sinks into my memory
She said baby
Forever
But I don't like to be alone
So don't stay away too long baby
Forever
Well it's tuesday now
I hear him breathing inside of her
Let me drink
Let me tie off
I'm really slobbering now
Let it stink
Let it dry up
It's impossible. How?
Angel, forever
Don't you promise me what you cannot deliver
Angel, together
I'll be waiting for you on fountain and fairfax


@ What Jail Is Like

I'll warn you, if corneres
I'll scrach my way out of the pen
Wired, an animal
The calustrophobia begins
You think I'm scared of girls
Well maybe, but I'm not afraid of you
You want to scare me
Then you'll cling to me
No matter what I do
Tell you a secret
They shared a needle once or twice
I loved her
She loved me
We slept together  couple of times
You think I'm proud of this
Well maybe, but the shame you never lose
Infatueted with a lunatic
And cornered by the muse
And it goes down every night
This must be what jail is really like
And I will scratch my way out of this pen, again
Lonely?
Maybe or maybe not
It all depends
Your idea, your image, your definition of a friend
If what you're shoveling is company
Then I'd rather be alone
Resentment always goes much further
Than it was supposed to go


@ My Curse

Hurt me baby
I flinch so when you do
Your kisses scourge me
Hyssop in your perfume
Oh, I do not fear you
And slave I only use as a word to describe the special way
I feel for you
You look like me
And I look like no one else
We need no other
As long as we have ourselves
But I won't cry about it every time you get obsessed
And every time I came undressed
All ugly toughts are gone
I'm sure we'll all be friends
I'll try to break your back
You'll try to make amends
Curse softly to me baby and smother in your love
Temptation comes not from Hell but from above
And there's blood on my teeth
When I bite my tongue to speak
Zip me down, kiss me there
I can smile now
You can't find out
Ever
Hurt me baby
I flinch so when you do
Your kisses scourge me
Hyssop in your perfume
Oh I do not fear you
And slave I only use as a word to describe the way
I feel when I'm with you
If I have to lie about it
Every time I came undressed


@  Now You Know

Since you're aware of the consequences
I can pimp what's left of this wreck on you
Bit into a rotten one now didn't you?
Now I can watch you chew
Did you have bliders on, my dear
Or were you just willing?
Or was I unaware of the damage a lie can do?
I tought you knew
Listen up, drive it off
Puncuate it with a smoker's cough
Light it up
Stick around
I told you somebody's going down, now
Spit it up, get it out
Let me kisses that beautiful mouth
Tell me is it hte same?
My sweetness, my everything
And this is condescending a comport at all to you?
Bit into a rotten one
Now didn't you?
Well, baby, now it's through