I Write The Book

I'm over here and it's cold

I'm writing recipes for growing old

Growing old, mean and alone

Oh, baby, pick up the phone

This pain in my heart

Has been with me through the ages

And I walk around it like a very old friend

It goes everywhere I go

It's been everywhere I've been

There's something shiny in my pocket

It's the key to my heart

Why don't you unlock it?

It used to be good between us

I don't know how to explain

We used to be Adonis and Venus

Now we're the water flowing down the drain

I write the book on loneliness

I write the poem on pain

I'm the obituary in the newspaper

Lying out in the pouring rain

It used to be good between us

I don't know how to explain

We used to be Adonis and Venus

Now we're the water flowing down the drain

Don't want to be bad

Don't want to lie

Don't want to make you mad

and I don't want to die

Knowing we're apart for the rest of our lives

Cutting through me like a knife

I been eating your crops like a big old locust

From now on I'm gonna be a little more in focus

I write the book on loneliness

I write the poem on pain

I'm the obituary in the newspaper

Lying out in the pouring rain

It used to be good between us

I don't know how to explain

We used to be Adonis and Venus

Now we're the water flowing down the drai