Pearls Before SwineLyrics and Music by Christie Wilcox
I guess you could say I haven’t been myself lately I’m supposed to act normal, even if I can smell your cologne I don’t like being weird about you – it’s not my style, it’s surely not hers. I just don’t understand how things got so… Then I hear her whisper your name and this pit forms in the base of my stomach How can I pretend that I don’t care I just want to let out a scream, maybe tear her head off, just for good measure But it wouldn’t matter even if I dared We won’t go back to being the way things were I feel a lot stupider than I should on a Saturday morning This damn hangover is pounding it into my head I saw your face last night in those devilish eyes across the counter So I bought another round to and tried to forget Why don’t I just pick up the phone and give you a ring and run back to you crying That’s what I want to do anyway, some of the time How could you do this to me? After all that we’d been, after all that we’d been through, Were you really just an asshole the whole time? Still I want to forgive you, and let you back into my life But we’ve been down this road before, and look what happened There are no third chances in life I hate being this girl I try to live up to in her presence But I have no choice in this lie Cuz I’m the one that handed my pearls to swine Sorry that I’m different now, I’ve changed a lot since we’ve last spoken And I’m a little more bitter than before I’m not that sweet girl who loved you freely like she’d never be broken The blame for that’s not entirely yours Why do I even call it blame? If anyone’s at fault, the culprit is me I chose to do what I did at the time And I know I can never go back; I don’t want to repeat all those stupid mistakes But there’s just something missing when you’re missing from my life So somebody remind me because I’d like to remember Tell me can you remind me because I need to remember Why did I hand my pearls, my pearls over Why did I hand, hand ‘em over Why did I hand my pearls over to swine? |
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