Chinese Arithmetic

Candle light, it burns in every hole of your eyes

It's beautiful how much you'll never realize

So hush my love, there's something I'm to tell you now

Your time has come around again my sleepless one

Your friend was young, hung and plastered

He never knew his own disaster

I think it's good, in fact it was faster

'Cause it was you that he was after

Hold me now as if you'll never let me go

Unhand me now as if you've always known who I was

His love was king, his love was master

He needed more, he needed always

He searched in vain for love and shelter

In every soul, in every hallway

So you thought she'd be sweeter than your girlfriend, Peter

Well give it a second chance 'cause you've yet to meet her

We got the same ideas, we got the same old fears

They're different colors sometimes but hey, hey, who cares?

Just years that tear our lives apart

Like the time you tried to teach your cousin to walk

He couldn't do it, push, you told him twice

But he does it everybody, just don't die

Tried to control my behavior

I tried so hard, so hard to believe ya

But now I live only to deceive you

So kick

And scream

And kick