I Felt The Luxury

<br>She sat on the pavement<br><br>As I pulled in the drive<br><br>Wearing leopard skin velvet<br><br>And shiny black eyes<br><br>&quot;she looks like a sleeper&quot;<br><br>Said my wife at the time<br><br>She had curls like delilah<br><br>And a smile like the sun<br><br>She held my poor corpse<br><br>Like shed never be done<br><br>And the caption in my mind said<br><br>&quot;this is the one&quot;<br><br>But Im strong and Im disciplined<br><br>And I avoided her for years<br><br>till one night, as usual<br><br>With my heart full of tears<br><br>A hand touched my back<br><br>And she was standing right there<br><br>Then I felt the luxury of her<br><br>I felt the luxury of her<br><br>I felt the luxury of her<br><br>I felt the luxury<br><br>Whispering<br><br>Whispering<br><br><br><br>Now Ill try hard to tell things just like they is<br><br>How my life was a desert before she came in<br><br>And wrecked it and ripped it and rubbed my nerves thin<br><br>How I liked to see her little feet pad around the house<br><br>The way she curled up quietly on the couch<br><br>I can still see her in my mind that way now<br><br>Aah I felt the luxury of her<br><br>I felt the luxury of her<br><br>I felt the luxury of her<br><br><br><br>Well time went by quickly<br><br>And her confidence grew<br><br>And she wanted this and that<br><br>And she wanted those too<br><br>And she wouldnt shut up<br><br>And one day I just blew up<br><br>Now shes in the hospital<br><br>For the second time<br><br>Maybe shell die<br><br>Maybe Ill cry<br><br>Therapists would say<br><br>&quot;youre in denial&quot;<br><br>But love became inconvenient<br><br>Love became a literal drag<br><br>Very bad for business<br><br>Id be better off a fag<br><br>Shes a model de sport<br><br>That I cant afford<br><br>cause Im a practical american<br><br>From the middle-west<br><br>And I can piss on a grave<br><br>While welcoming guests<br><br>If colds what I am<br><br>Im cold till the end<br><br>And I felt the luxury of her<br><br>I felt the luxury of her<br><br>Now Im gonna continue walking<br><br>In the modern world<br><br>Which justifies every egotistical perversion<br><br>With scientific talk<br><br>And new ways to walk<br><br>But Ill remember the religion<br><br>She became to me<br><br>And the other person I could have been<br><br>So for now Ill say so long<br><br>I gotta go do wrong<br><br>I gotta go do wrong<br><br>I felt the luxury<br><br>I felt the luxury<br><br>I felt the luxury<br><br>Aah, luxury