I Want You - Elvis Costello, The Attractions

Oh my baby baby

I love you more than I can tell

I don’t think I can live without you

And I know that I never will

Oh my baby baby

I want you so it scares me to death

I can’t say anymore than «I love you»

Everything else is a waste of breath

I want you

You’ve had your fun you don’t get well no more

I want you

Your fingernails go dragging down the wall

Be careful darling you might fall

I want you

I woke up and one of us was crying

I want you

You said «Young girl I do believe you’re dying»

I want you

If you need a second opinion as you seem to do these days

I want you

You can look in my eyes and you can count the ways

I want you

Did you mean to tell me but seem to forget?

I want you

Since when were you so generous and inarticulate?

I want you

It’s the stupid details that my heart is breaking for

It’s the way your shoulders shake and what they’re shaking for

I want you

It’s knowing that she knows you now after only guessing

I want you

It’s the thought of her undressing you or you undressing

I want you

She tossed some tattered compliment your way

I want you

And you were fool enough to love it when she said

«I want you»

I want you

The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark

It scares you witless

But in time you see things clear and stark

I want you

Go on and hurt me now and then let it drop

I want you

I’m afraid I won’t know where to stop

I want you

I’m not ashamed to say I cried for you

I want you

I want to know the things you did that we do too

I want you

I want to hear she pleases you more than I do

I want you

I might as well be useless for all it means to you

I want you

Did you call her name out as she held you down?

I want you

But no my darling, not with that clown

I want you, I do

I want you

You’ve had your fun you don’t get well no more

I want you

No one who wants you could want you more

I want you

I want you

I want you

Every night when I go off to bed

And when I wake up

I want you

I’m going to say it once again 'til I instill it

I know I’m going to feel this way until you kill it

I want you

I want you