Peanuts - Yard Act.mp3

[00:00.250]Here I am again
[00:02.303]Here I am sitting in the waiting room
[00:05.476]Waiting for an appointment
[00:07.361]That I had booked six months ago
[00:10.261]I'm feeling very low
[00:12.292]Yes, I was shitting bricks
[00:14.351]At the prospect of existence without you
[00:16.969]And so I gave it one more go
[00:20.253]But my story didn't stick
[00:22.565]And suddenly it clicked
[00:24.602]Some allergies you tolerate and some habits, you just have to kick
[00:36.983]I saw you on your back
[00:38.979]Amongst the peanut shells
[00:40.903]That were scattered on the floor of the big top
[00:44.365]Right next to the overwhelming sense
[00:47.236]Of impending doom, but no one even asked
[00:50.798]Or mentioned anything to me about the elephant in the room
[00:55.452]When suddenly it clicked
[00:57.426]Some allergies you tolerate and some habits, you, yeah
[01:01.491]You gotta bite the bullet and get it fixed
[01:03.492]You gotta get it seen to, so see to it
[01:05.491]That the story sticks
[01:06.638]That the story sticks
[01:07.634]That the story sticks
[01:08.693]That the story sticks
[01:09.668]You gotta bite the bullet and get it fixed
[01:11.790]You gotta get it seen to, so see to it
[01:13.677]That the story sticks
[01:14.869]That the story sticks
[01:15.941]That the story sticks
[01:16.964]That the story sticks, ah
[01:22.285]You always said that you'd both met and fell in love at the circus
[01:24.690]And that's why you loved animals so much
[01:27.154]So much so that you'd bought a big dog
[01:28.958]With little ears and called it 'dumbo'
[01:31.270]Which was a joke that got less and less funny every time
[01:34.498]Obviously you brought the dog along that night
[01:36.688]When you showed up otherwise alone, to my dinner party
[01:39.531]Having already rung ahead to ensure that all of my dishes
[01:43.022]Had been prepared in a completely nut-free environment
[01:46.328]Now quipping that it was for the sake of your 'imaginary' husband
[01:49.966]Because several years on from the wedding
[01:51.873]That none of us were invited to
[01:53.550]We still hadn't met him, even though you always said he was coming
[01:56.689]Before suddenly he couldn't make it
[01:58.577]Because he worked away a lot with work
[02:00.592]But mainly because he didn't really exist
[02:03.018]And you broke down in tears in my kitchen
[02:05.354]Certain he was seeing somebody else
[02:07.589]How reckless we'd all been to tolerate your fabricated reality
[02:11.108]But until then I didn't have the guts
[02:12.907]To put an end to the ever maddening scenes
[02:15.169]So with a solemn nod and totemic silence
[02:18.049]I walked over to the cupboard where I kept the snacks
[02:20.607]Took a pinch of dry roast dust from the loose pegged bag
[02:24.592]Sprinkled it into the upturned palms of your trembling hands
[02:27.646]And said
[02:28.688]'If you just rub some of this
[02:30.126]Round the rim of his can then no one will know
[02:32.505]But we'll all understand'
[02:34.523]It takes real guts to fake being nuts
[02:36.739]And it takes real nuts to break fake guts
[02:47.832]You gotta bite the bullet and get it fixed
[02:49.780]You gotta get it seen to, so see to it
[02:51.801]That the story sticks
[02:52.928]That the story sticks
[02:54.007]That the story sticks
[02:55.064]That the story sticks
[02:56.064]You gotta bite the bullet and get it fixed
[02:58.138]You gotta get it seen to, so see to it
[03:00.195]That the story sticks
[03:01.117]That the story sticks
[03:02.209]That the story sticks
[03:03.246]That the story sticks
[03:04.993]Because stories that don't stick
[03:06.325]Mean someone's bound to twig
[03:08.383]Your alibis cooperate or they will be
[03:11.743]Fed to all the pigs