CliffSongs, The Dark Side of Love

So you like to be misused do you? I've got the perfect woman for you:

Abusive Baby

by Cliff Lake

© 2-1-94

Well, it was twelve long years of looking,
I was searching around the world.
Looking for the perfect woman,
I was looking for my girl.
Then I met this loud-mouthed hussy,
Just as bitchy as you please,
I knew that I'd found what I was hungry for,
When she knocked me to my knees.
She pushed me around the barroom,
While she drank up my paycheck.
But I didn't fall in love until the moment,
That she bit a hole clear through my neck.

And I love my abusive baby,
Gonna let her tear me right apart.
Gonna dress her up in leather,
And put her chains around my heart.

I like her liquored up on a Saturday night,
Whiskey rollin' down her chin.
Then she calls me every fuckin' name in the book,
While she chases away alla my friends.
I'm gonna hire some lawyers to hound her,
Just to make sure that she gets pissed.
Then I'm gonna call me up a psychiatrist,
Just to find out what tricks I missed.

And I love my abusive baby,
Let her tear my ass apart.
Gonna dress her up in leather,
And put her chains around my heart.

Still trying to be "friends" are they?

Did You Miss Me? I saw you dancing in the grass with him today, Reminding me of the words you said just yesterday Telling me you still care, and that you miss me and other things you felt Well, it seems that you miss me so much that you're seeing someone else Chorus: You miss me so much that you're seeing someone new You miss me so much you've found someone else to do You miss me so much that you're never around Well, if you miss me so much - how come I'm the one that's down? Well you're the one that's riding, 'cause he's driving you car I don't care where it is you're going, but it's already too far You missed me at work, you missed me at the bar, you even missed my goodbye, If you miss me so much, then who's this other guy? Chorus: You miss me so much you're seeing a new man I tell ya, you miss me like no other woman can You miss me so much you're all over town, Well if you miss me so much How come I'm the one that's down? Cliff Lake 7/17/95

Here's one from before I woke up and smelled the coffee...

Hanging On It's now been over for a month or two, And my heart still yearns while my brain knows we're through And it's the middle of the night And I feel almost dead, But her face and her form still dance through my head. And I can't forget about her, Though I know that it's wrong, And I'm sitting here dead tired And still hanging on. Chorus: I'm tired of hurting, but I hang on to the feelings And I'm tired of the dirt But I hang on with her dealings And I'm tired of a nothing we've shared for too long I'm tired, but I still just hang on So I wait and I watch while she passes me by And plays the same game with some other guy Then she tells me it's best that we still stay friends So I try that one too, but the pain never ends And I try to suppress feelings too strong, And it just makes me tired, but I'm still hanging on. Chorus Cliff Lake 6/30/96 Copyright©1998 Clifford Lake, All rights reserved.

In carnival parlance,a "lizard" is a girl that spends all of her time doing every swinging dick that works with the show...I knew one once...

Lizard Chorus: Remembering the past can leave much to be desired Reliving old glories no longer attainable may leave you tired Shattered hopes, broken dreams may inspire renewed pain God, I sometimes wish I didn't have a brain. Living in my head because my eyes see much too much Seeing it all clearly too without alcohol's broken crutch Wanting to forget you, but I see you every day, As another man's too taut heart strings you savagely do play Staying out of sight, yet I still hear your voice Knowing that I have been just one more of your toys. I fell for you and all the lies your lips and eyes did tell, Knowing that if you asked me to, I'd walk right back into your hell. Chorus The things you said and the things you did were wholly worlds apart And still I let my feelings for you climb right off the fucking chart But soon, I know your days near me will end, You've lost what friends you had, Because, my dear, they were my friends first and still are, and they're mad Chorus: Feeling for the past may bring you to the brink, Of unlit ways and darksome days, As you wander through the stink Of a sickened psyche that lives to tear apart God, I sometimes with I didn't have a heart. You've made your play, you've walked away Another mans bed to soil, But I ask you now, what have you to show for your squirming, moaning toil? A sperm collection I think, but that just showers away Leaving you helpless but to gather more today Chorus Reaching back for you would be a mistake From me, at least you've gotten all I'll let you take And so we'll all return home, we in this travelling pack And when we do, sometimes I wish you just would not come back Cliff Lake 7/8/95

Pretty much your straight blues theme.

Two Lost I looked into the eyes of my baby, But she would not take me by the hand I looked into the eyes of my baby, But she would not hold my hand 'Cause there, looking out of my baby's eyes, I could see another man I called my best friend on the telephone But he would not talk to me I called on my best friend for counsel. But he would not talk to me The two people I care most about in this world Seem to have forgotten me Chorus: I lose again, I cannot win, I've lost my baby and my best friend The same old tale that I must spin: I've left my baby with my best friend. Everybody's always asking me How it was I did not know Everyone just looks at me and wonders How it was I did not know That the two people I counted on the most Could be so dirty, mean , and low. I lose again, I cannot win, I've lost my baby, and my best friend The same old tale that I must spin I've lost my baby to my best friend. Cliff Lake 6/10/96 Copyright © 1998 Clifford Lake

There's 2 or 3 chics in here that I used to know...

Carpentry - The Breaking Heart Song Raise the walls and close the doors. And nurse again the bleeding sores. Life's a risk, so take the plunge, And gamble that you'll have someone. There was a girl I once did see, Having pulled her close to me. We talked and laughed for so short a time - But long enough to think her mine. She took, I gave, hoping some semblance of love to save, But too soon I saw that good-bye wave. She danced away with friends and beer, And I sat and watched and was left right here. Raise the walls and close the doors. And nurse again the bleeding sores. Life's a risk, so take the plunge, And gamble that you'll have someone. I tried again some other place, But older then 'cause time does race. A child was born, then she fled and hid, Eight years gone now is that kid. So walls were built and doors put in, And I keep on trying and then The walls go up and sometimes come down.... And the world keeps on spinning round Raise the walls and close the doors. And nurse again the bleeding sores. Life's a risk, so take the plunge, And gamble that you'll have someone. Cliff Lake 7/4/'95

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