She’s Your Lover Now (Studio Outtake - 1966)

[Verse 1]

The pawnbroker roared

Also, so, so did the landlord

The scene was so crazy, wasn’t it?

Both were so glad

To watch me destroy what I had

Pain sure brings out the best in people, doesn’t it?

Why didn’t you just leave me if you didn’t want to stay?

Why’d you have to treat me so bad?

Did it have to be that way?

Now you stand here expectin’ me to remember something’ you forgot to say

Yes, and you, I see you’re still with her, well

That’s fine ’cause she’s comin’ on so strange, can’t you tell?

Somebody had better explain

She’s got her iron chain

I’d do it, but I, I just can’t remember how

You talk to her

She’s your lover now

[Verse 2]

I already assumed

That we’re in the felony room

But I ain’t a judge, you don’t have to be nice to me

But please tell that

To your friend in the cowboy hat

You know he keeps on saying’ everything’ twice to me

You know I was straight with you

You know I’ve never tried to change you in any way

You know if you didn’t want to be with me

That you didn’t have to stay

Now you stand here sayin’ you forgive and forget. Honey, what can I say?

Yes, you, you just sit around and ask for ashtrays, can’t you reach?

I see you kiss her on the cheek ev’rytime she gives a speech

With her picture books of the pyramid

And her postcards of Billy the Kid (why must everybody bow?)

You better talk to her ’bout it

You’re her lover now

[Verse 3]

Oh, everybody that cares

Is going up the castle stairs

But I’m not up in your castle, honey

It’s true, I just can’t recall

San Francisco at all

I can’t even remember El Paso, uh, honey

You never had to be faithful

I never wanted you to grieve

Oh, why was it so hard for you

If you didn’t want to be with me, just to leave?

Now you stand here while your finger’s going’ up my sleeve

An’ you, just what do you do anyway?

Ain’t there nothing’ you can say?

She’ll be standing’ on the bar soon

With a fish head and a harpoon

And a fake beard plastered on her brow

You’d better do something quick

She’s your lover now

[Verse 4]

Oh, why must I fall into this sadness?

Do I look like Charles Atlas?

Do you think I still got what you still got baby?

My voice is really warm

It's just there, it ain't got no form

But it's just like a dead man's last pistol shot, baby

Ah, your mouth used to be so naked

Your eyes used to be so blue

Your hurts used to be so nameless

And your tears used to be so few

Now your mouth cries wolf

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