Must I paint you a picture
(Billy Bragg)
intro: C - G - Am

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It's bad timeing and me
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We find a lot of things out this way
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And there's you
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A little black cloud in a dress
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The temptation
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To take the precious things we have a part
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To see how they work
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Must be resisted for they never fit together again
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If this is rain let it fall on me and drown me
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If these are tears let them fall

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Must I paint you a picture
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About the way that I feel
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You know that my love for you is strong girl
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You know that my love for you is real

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It took a short walk and a talk
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To change the rules of engagement
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While you searched frantically for reverse
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And then claiming
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That virtue never tested is no virtue at all
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And so I lost my ignorance
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And now the bells across the river chime out your name
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I look across to them again     (chorus)

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All your friends sais come down

It will never fly

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And on that imperfect day
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We threw it all away
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Crisis after crisis, with such intensity
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This would never happen if we lived by the sea

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Most important decisions in life
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Are made between two people in bed
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I found that at my own expense
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And when I see you
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You juts turn around and walk away like we never met
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Oh we used to be so brave
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I dreamt the wolrd stopped turning as we climbed the hill
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I dreamt impossible dreams that we were lovers still  (chorus)