What you did to me made me
See myself something different
Though I try to talk sense to myself
But I just won't listen

Won't you go away
Turn yourself in
You're no good at confession
Before the image that you burned me in
Tries to teach you a lesson

What you did to me
Made me see myself somethin' awful
A voice once stentorian
Is now again weak and muffled
It took me such a long time to get back up
The first time you did it
I stand tall, I had to get it back
And all this seems I've now bit it

My peace and quiet was stolen from me
When I was looking with calm affection
You were searching out my imperfections

What wasted unconditional love
On somebody
Who doesn't believe in this stuff

You came up on me like a hipnik jerk
When I was just about settled
And when it counts you recoil
With the cryptic wording you leave a love belittled
Oh what a cold and a common old way to go

I was feeding on the need for you to know me
Devastated on the rage you fell below me

What wasted unconditional love
On somebody
Who doesn't believe in this life

Oh well