ElvIs Costello & The AttractIons – I Want You

Oh my baby baby
I love you more than I can tell 
I don’t think I can live without you 
And I know that I never will 

Oh my baby baby 
I want you so it scares me to death 
I can’t say anymore than “I love you” 
Everything else is a waste of breath 

I want you
You’ve had your fun you don’t get well no more
I want you
Your fingernails go dragging down the wall 
Be careful darling you might fall 

I want you
I woke up and one of us was crying 
I want you
You said “Young man I do believe you’re dying”
I want you
If you need a second opinion as you seem to do these days
I want you
You can look in my eyes and you can count the ways 

I want you
Did you mean to tell me but seem to forget 
I want you
Since when were you so generous and inarticulate
I want you
It’s the stupid details that my heart is breaking for 
It’s the way your shoulders shake and what they’re shaking for
I want you
It’s knowing that he knows you now after only guessing 
It’s the thought of him undressing you or you undressing 

I want you
He tossed some tattered compliment your way 
I want you
And you were fool enough to love it when he said 
“I want you”

I want you
The truth can’t hurt you it’s just like the dark 
It scares you witless 
But in time you see things clear and stark 
I want you
Go on and hurt me then we’ll let it drop 
I want you
I’m afraid I won’t know where to stop 
I want you
I’m not ashamed to say I cried for you 
I want you
I want to know the things you did that we do too 
I want you
I want to hear he pleases you more than I do 
I want you
I might as well be useless for all it means to you 
I want you
Did you call his name out as he held you down? 
I want you
Oh no my darling not with that clown 
I want you

I want you
You’ve had your fun you don’t get well no more
I want you
No-one who wants you could want you more 

I want you
I want you

I want you
Every night when I go off to bed and when I wake up
I want you

I’m going to say it once again ’til I instill it 
I go, go to feel this way until you kill it
I want you
I want you
I want you