I love you more than any man, but something's getting in the way

I do you harm because I can, for the second time today

Victims we are not of happenstance, but you're a victim all the same

Stuck inside a circumstance, with your confusion and your blame

And when I get drunk, you take me home and keep me safe from harm

When I get drunk, you take me home

I ask you for another second chance, but then I drink it all away

And I get bellicose when you react, for love, frustration and dismay

I was so delicate when we began, so tender when I spoke your name

But now I'm nothing but a partisan, to my compulsion and my shame

And when I get drunk, you take me home and keep me safe from harm

When I get drunk, you take me home

You know I'm grateful, I appreciate

But in fact it's baleful, how I suck you dry [3]

How I suck you

How I suck you dry [3]

I love you more than any man, but I seem to lay it all to waste

I do you harm because I can, with a joke in questionable taste

I've such duplicity at my command, so I keep on lying to your face

Then I run away to wonderland, disappear without a trace

When I get drunk, you take me home and keep me safe from harm

When I get drunk, you take me home

You know I'm grateful, I appreciate

But in fact it's baleful, how I suck you dry [3]

How I suck you

How I suck you dry [3]