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