Template:Seconds Of Pleasure

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You say you don't desire me

She's only a hired hand

Now you are tired of me

Expensive care is meaningless

Feeling nothing and caring less


Cut off at the pass

She knows where you were headed

She wants double-time

Or a temporary wedding


And the lucky girl leads a life of leisure

Though she might have to wait forty-five years

For seconds of pleasure


I thought I knew you too well

Now I find the man is a mystery

And the promises you made

Are really only ancient history


Everyday goes by without a hitch

You say the urge becomes an itch

You say that I'm no good for you, that's rich

Or am I being bitchy?


And the lucky girl leads a life of leisure

Though she might have to wait forty-five years

For seconds of pleasure


And the hands on the clock move so precisely

You say you only kissed her once or twice

You didn't do it for love, you didn't even do it with stealth

I can't help you now

I can't help myself


Committed to life and then commuted to the outskirts

I was living for thirty minutes at a time

With a break in the middle for adverts


You treat me like a piece of human furniture

You say "when", you say "so"

If you can look all that you like

But I won't let you touch and go


And the lucky girl leads a life of leisure

Though she might have to wait forty-five years

For seconds of pleasure