Buttercup

   Gee your mom looked like shit last night
   Hope that tinker toy 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 drunk or not
   But before they slipped away I swore I coulda 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 drunk or not
   But before they slipped away I swore I coulda 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 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 ornry 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 drunk or not
   But before they slipped away I swore I coulda heard
   Them say you wanted me, to be your buttercup
   Say you need me to be your buttercup
   Buttercup, your buttercup, ducks, shnucks, shlucks, shucks