Buttercup

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Gee your mom looked  Like shit last night  Hope that Tinkertoy  Boyfriend tonks her right  Then again I could never tell  A fist fight from fun  Maybe I've never really known anyone Just sat still and spit in the fire  I thought I might strangle you  But I couldn't find a wire  You've never been the type  To make your heart clear  Lest someone overhear Words drown in your martini glass  Entire sentences slowly drunken up  But before they slipped away  I swore I could've heard them say  You wanted me to be your buttercup  Say you need me to be your buttercup The party reached a feverish pitch  Good time soldiers  Drunk and in a ditch  Infidelity a bomb that went off  That left the world  To swerve and cough Stepped over bodies  Strewn like shipwrecks  Love's last call  Warning puke reflex  Faith is for that frozen few  That never met  Someone quite like you Words drown in your martini glass  Entire sentences slowly drunken up  But before they slipped away  I swore I could've heard them say  You wanted me to be your buttercup  Say you need me to be your buttercup Fish don't know they're short  They just feel sideways  And words to you are  Just the same they shy away  When legs and limbs are all tucked in  You pull me close to you come night  And I'm just like a fleshy fruit  And hung from the bowl of your side  Your lips may not sell or say  What your eyes give away  You're sweet as pumpkin pie I take the keys  From your hand that stutters up  Let the night air sober you up  Driving home you make me pull over  You press my hand gently  As a four leaf clover You say sweetheart  I'm a foolish man  I'm ornery and I'm stubborn  Like my coffee from a can  But without you I would  Shrivel up and die  Won't you be my  Won't you be my  Won't you be my... Words drown in your martini glass  Entire sentences slowly drunken up  But before they slipped away  I swore I could've heard them say  You wanted me to be your buttercup  Say you need me to be your buttercup Tell me you need me  To be your buttercup  Your buttercup  Ducks, shnucks, shlucks, shucks

Buttercup Written by Jewel