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