Take your tiny feet out of your mother's shoes    Or there is going to be a terrible scene    It's not just the lipstick drawn on crooked    When they find how wicked we are    How wicked we have been    How I've been tempted       How you tripped at every step    You tripped at every step, you tripped at every step    How you tripped at every step       There's a merry tune that starts in "I"    And ends in "You," like many famous pop songs do    You would sing along with little tell-tale staggers    While balancing on daggers    Though they were killing you    You looked so deadly       How you tripped at every step    You tripped at every step, you tripped at every step    How you tripped at every step       And I would try to catch you    Anytime you call    Only you drank that potion    And went out of control    There's nothing to stop you    So how can you fall?    Let me take your hand    Put down that frying pan       Darkness would become me underneath the table    As the fury raged around the house    Your despairing tread was angry and unstable    You never suspected    Just as that cartoon mouse    Went undetected       So you tripped at every step       In another world of gin and cigarettes    Those cocktail cabinets put mud in your eye    Maybe that is why you find it hard to see me    And if you don't believe me    Before you start to cry    "Don't ever leave me"       As you start to lose your grip    (Once you start losing your grip)    You will stumble as you slip    (And you will stumble and slip)    As you tripped at every step    You tripped at every step, you tripped at every step    As you tripped at every step