
Date of issue: 24.07.2006
Record label: Rounder
Song language: English
Whatever You Want |
He’s a company man, your right hand, 13 years and counting. |
No detectable ambition, a model of efficiency, far as you can see. |
He knows every loophole, the art of fine print, massages the numbers 'til they |
fit. |
And every time you ask him for another vanishing act, he half-smiles as if to |
say: |
Whatever you want, whatever you want, whatever you want is fine by me. |
Whatever you want, whatever you want, whatever you want is fine by me. |
Never a real moment together but she understands: you’re an important man. |
Another late night. |
don’t know if you’re coming home or when. |
she’s alone again. |
But she goes on curating your domestic museum. |
she disappears in her loyalty. |
She is a dress wearing a face in the doorway, opening her arms out to you: |
Whatever you want, whatever you want, whatever you want is fine by me. |
Whatever you want, whatever you want, whatever you want is fine by me. |
No one would dare to question you, oh no. |
No one would dare to stand up. |
But in the night she leaves the papers in a tiny pile: evidence for her reasons. |
And in the night he takes the main accounts and pulls the files, |
detailing every treason. |
I am the last one you’d ever suspect of setting the fire, of setting the fire. |
But as you switch on your TV tomorrow morning, you’ll hear me saying quietly: |
Whatever you want, whatever you want, whatever you want is fine by me. |
Whatever you want, whatever you want, whatever you want is fine by me. |
Oh whatever you say, oh whatever you say: |
I’ll do what you ask me, I’ll do what you ask me. |
Oh whatever you say, oh whatever you say. |
But do you know who’s listening? |
Oh whatever you say, oh whatever you say, |
You know it’s over! |
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