The Age of the Understatement

Decided to sneak off away from your stomach
And try your pulse
They captured what seemed all unknowing
And candid but they suspected it
Was false

She's playful,
The boring would warn you
Be careful of her brigade
In order to tame this relentless marauder
Move away from the parade
She was walking on the tables
In the glasshouse,
Endearingly bedraggled in the wind,
Subtle in her method of seduction,
Twenty little tragedies begin

And she would throw her feather-boa in the road,
If she thought that it would set the scene,
Unfittingly dipped into your companions
Enlightened them to make you seeth

There's affection to rent,
The age of the understatement
Before the attraction ferments
Kiss me properly and pull me apart

There's affection to rent,
The age of the understatement
Before the attraction ferments
Kiss me properly and pull me apart

My fingers scratch at my hair before my mind
Can get too reckless
The idea of seeing you here is enough to make
The sweat go cold

Want her,have her...Two years have gone now
but I can't relate to the never ending games that you play
As desire passes through
then you're open to the truth
I hope you understand
and your love is standing next to me,
is standing next to me.

The one you fell for makes it seem juvenile
And you'll laugh at yourself again and again
And we'll drink to the thought
she'll remember you maybe tomorrow

And your love is standing next to me
is standing next to me,
and your love is standing next to me
is standing next to me

Want her,have her...Two years have gone now
but I can't relate to the never ending games that you play
As desire passes through
then you're open to the truth
I hope you understand
and your love is standing next to me,
is standing next to me...