Oh Well

What you did to me made me
See myself something different
Though I try to talk sense to myself
But I just won't listen.

Won't you go away
Turned yourself in
You're no good at confession
Before the image that you burned me in
Tries to teach you a lesson.

What you did to me made me see myself somethin' awful
A voice once stentorian is now again meek and muffled
It took me such a long time to get back up the first time you did it
I spent all I had to get it back, and now it seems I've been outbidded.

My peace and quiet was stolen from me
When I was looking with calm affection
You were searching out my imperfections.

[Chorus:]
What wasted unconditional love
On somebody
Who doesn't believe in the stuff.

You came upon me like a hypnic jerk
When I was just about settled
And when it counts you recoil
With a cryptic word and leave a love belittled.

Oh what a cold and common old way to go
I was feeding on the need for you to know me
Devastated at the rate you fell below me.

[Chorus:]
What wasted unconditional love
On somebody
Who doesn't believe in the stuff.

Oh, well.