If You Only Knew

1st part
You appear to like it like this
you appear to think that everything is ok
do you think it appears we've got a normal relationship?

Why don't you come to me and tell me
how much you hate the way we don't communicate?
Why is it that you just sit there and knit?

You were the one that I waited for
you were the one stood smiling, holding open the door
you took me in now you won't speak to me anymore

2nd part
If you only knew, just how much I really hated you
you would curl into a ball and blow away

and if you only knew, just how much you really hurted me
you would hide your face in shame and misery

and if you only knew, just how much you really made me feel
you would know you had lost a love that was real

3rd part
people always tell me you've only got one life
you've gotta make it count, they say
you can struggle you can win
you can come out on top
you'll be happy and smiling one day

ooh weee, that's great, I'll be successful and rich
what then I hear myself say
I'll climb every mountain, I'll swim every sea
so proud will I be of my way

I'll sail round the world in a hot-air balloon
full of gas and a sponsorship deal
I'll gain your respect, your adoration I expect
how could will that make me feel

a culture of win, a culture of greed
the gall of the rich as they spout their creed
banking their billions in blood and bone
telling us more unemployment is just what we need

well I've had enough of your lies, and I've had enough contempt
I hear your fine words but I know your intent
you speak of your faith and your pious deeds
but it's your wealth and power your hypocrisy feeds

I know you can't help it, you agree it's a shame
but Iraqi babies you've gotta bomb and maim
it's all part of your plan to get justice, you see
it's unfortunate you explain but so necess'ry

oh you crazy fools with your mindless greed
and your patented genes and your suicide seed
you poison our food close our factories
sow hatred and fear in our communities

well I've had enough of these imbecile tunes
the derisory spin from these right wing loons
they'll shoot your brother and they'll rape your wife
they burn and destroy and lay waste to life

• sling your hook you mastermind
  of my impoverishment
  we'll bring to book you and your kind
  our Victory our intent

4th part
like a mountain range I'm worn by the glacier of your heart
like a leaf in the storm I'm torn apart
like a ghost in the twilight I holler and moan
right there where you sit in our very own home

my pain is like a tear that is frozen in time
my sob is a fist clenched in ice
I wanna seize the moment, bust out of my mind
but I don't wanna pay the price

there must come a time when my dreams I can live
there must be a time to part or forgive
I'm yearning and burning to find a way
to wipe all our fears and tears away

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