Couldn't buy a break, wasn't gonna try   Never went away and you never quite arrived   And I followed just to see you running   Things are going to call to you   Things of little consequence   That which once seemed small to you   Now is so immense   And I don't know how you could have seen it coming   Rolled up in a carpet bag, you should have looked like hell, dear   You know it always bothers me to see you doing so well   and to see you look so stunning      Came uptight and went home raving   Strung out with a morbid craving   hung up from the walls that are caving down   ain't nothing in here worth saving   Sell it all for a morbid craving   I just don't need the things you gave me now      The machinery and the tenements   careening through the elements   I can feel the fabric of your dress   I can see you leaning up against   The marble walls and the half-lit hall with someone   Did you draw a debtor's pension   An impression in the paint   I don't recall the things you mentioned   They all seem very faint   The all seem so difficult so difficult to summon   You would have thought you was the first girl   ever learned a song by heart   but baby if you won't rehearse it   someone will have to do your part   and i can already see her coming      slept all day spent all night praying   just to fill a morbid craving   rolled him up a hill and then straight down   ain't nothing in here worth saving   burn it all for a morbid craving   i just don't need the things you gave me now      Collecting common knowledge   Like the dirt beneath my fingers   Though I did not go to college   There is one lesson that lingers   How a boy betrayed your confidence   In the theatres and the monuments   And I can hardly blame him, dear   The way you talk such nonsense   You wanna play the lost apostle   In a hotel room in Knoxville   But you don't know what you're doing   So you don't hold me responsible   You would have thought you was the first girl   Ever loved a married man, oh dear   I don't know how much he hurt you   But I will hurt you more than him   If that's why you keep coming      Came all night and went home raving   Burnt out on a morbid craving   Hung up while the walls are caving down   Ain't nothing in here worth saving   Fick it all for a morbid craving   I can't give back the things you gave me now