Del Amitri - Sticks And Stones, Girl lyrics

Here I am, hardly breathing in at all
I cough when I can and that's about all
I am this man and though I turn the tape
To a happier song, my face can't find a smile
Because it's been looking too long

You arrive like a locust swarm
You devastated me and now when
You leave the room
My heart, head, hands and all forms
Go from red hot blood to
Bone dry and lukewarm
You're the sticks and stones, girl
You're the fire and flames
I might be half-dead and half-born girl
But whales start singing when
I hear your name
I'm heaped with hate like acid rain
Nothing can
Restrain the loathing and disgust I have and
There is no one I distrust
More than the happy
Whores who buy and trade
Crawling on all fours

Backwards into holes and fires
That wealth and self-congratulations made

You're the sticks and stones, girl
You're the fire and flames
You're the punishment, the pleasure
The employment and the leisure
You're the sweet conversation and
The cutting names

Heart, head, hands and all forms
Went from red hot blood to
Bone dry and lukewarn
Whales stopped singing and the
Ships were bringing in
Toadstools and moss instead of
Sugarbeet and corn and all the girls in the
World were distorted and deformed
When the first leech was let loose
And my jealousy was born

You're the sticks and stones girl
You're the fire and flames