Giving Myself Away lyrics

Song information

Artist: Faithless
Album: Outrospective

Lyrics

In background - "do what I have to"
Remember emily?
[In background - "that's a long time" 2x]
In a long dress one summer day she said yes
Now every special request requires another
So many times it feels endless, a big yes
Branded red on each breast
But she selfless out there
Doing her best strangest scene
Nobody seemed to be impressed
The more she do for this fool
The more she behind schedule
Had no fun for so long
Old records turned her onto high school flings
And she was full of daring

Colorful hair used to wear thirteen rings
Now she staring drudgery
Full in the face and accepts it as her place
And just in case there's anything she missed
She recheck the list
Does it over again
To make sure it's spotless

Jimmy longed for how it used to be
She was viscous and volatile
She was feisty, iced tea was the tipple never asked nicely
Her lips used to curl down ever so slightly, impolite
Fire burned bright behind the oakleys
We just had to get to grips

After a few long sips juice begin to lose flavour
She no longer gets to savor being consumed
Jimmy sleeps drunk in the other room still in his shoes escaping head long into the booze
The whole house vibrating with the changes of moods

From feisty she turned into be nice to me
In the old days he'd of been wearing ice t
Jimmy pray those times return
She was fine and so beautifully unconcerned

Jimmy told her on the day he quit
You don't love me you love the relationship

Me?
I'm the progeny product of misogyny
Jimmy and emily's homogeny
They promised me nothing but honesty
And that's all I got
I could never be the cement in their destiny
They still haven't forgiven me
You know my own woman is leaving me
Said she stopped believing me
Cant even see what she saw in me
I told my woman she was beautiful
She didn't believe
Convinced herself I was preparing to leave
So she took my son and left the world to freeze

I told my woman she was beautiful ten times a day
Ten times a day she would smile, and look away

I end up throwing my love down a bottomless pit
And giving myself away..

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