Pardon me sugar I’m the man underneath your thumb
But I won’t take your violence and I won’t chew your bubblegum
White heat, indiscreet, any day now obsolete
Though you’ve seen your best days
I'll still walk down your empty street
Well you look like salvation but you taste like a refugee
Well you say you got no soul but you look like you do to me

And if I was the melody you were the symphony
Honey loving you took the very best of me
I don’t need your red wine covered sympathy
Just another punch line in your stand up tragedy

Well I’ve been pushing up daisies just to catch a glimpse of something real
When I see you coming might just as well give up and kneel
Came, saw, broke your law, anyday now I'll withdraw
I chewed on your intention just to dislocate my jaw
Well if you saw me broken would you put me out my misery
Well I don’t do handsome and you don’t do sympathy

If I was the melody you were the symphony
Honey loving you took the very best of me
I don’t need your red wine covered sympathy
Just another punchline in your stand up tragedy

Wrong from the get go, let it slide
Tell them what they don’t know
Sing those praises far and wide
Eat those peaches, ring them bells
Mama don’t know what she preaches
But she sure looks dignified
But she sure looks dignified
But she sure looks dignified
And if I was the melody you were the symphony
Honey loving you took the very best of me
I don’t need your red wine covered sympathy
Just another punchline in your stand up tragedy

Take my hungry guarantee
I could be your slave if you’d only beg for me
I don’t need your red wine covered sympathy
Just another punchline in your
Stand up, sit down, lie back, turn round, play dead for me
Stand up tragedy