Parenthetical Girls - Brimstone & Vaseline lyrics

Did it ever cross your mind?
Does this come as some surprise?
So you took us for a ride
Until the scales fell from my eyes

Put your petulance aside
And for a second, quell your pride
Jesus, have you lost your mind?
Because all I lost was time

Wait watch me walk away
We fled down the fire escape
& you felt betrayed a grown man of forty
Jesus, act your age

Death tucked between two legs
But never himself to blame

Had this ever crossed your mind?
How could this come as some surprise?
Semi-conscious all this time
& then the scales fell from my eyes

Does it help to ease your mind?
Did this help you sleep at night?
Jesus, have you lost your mind?
Well, you're well within your rights

Good grief thrown in stark relief
A car fire of vanities wonders never cease

& what's left to slay the beast?
The Sword of Damocles?
Or hung from the Jesus piece
Made from his baby teeth?

Has this ever crossed your mind
In all your spiteful little life?
Has it flashed before your eyes
& did you ever question why?

Look, I know this hurt your pride
But for the first time in your life
Put your petulance aside
& pull the blinders from your eyes