(Something's Got To) Give Pretty Soon
Album(s): Decoration Day,Sung by: Patterson Hood
Written by: Patterson Hood
Way you look at me like that, something's got to give pretty soon.
Throw it on the camel's back, something's got to give pretty soon.
Living hard to chase the dream,
way beyond our ways and means.
Your's don't mean a goddamn thing.
That's what you said, but don't believe it.
Shattered look upon your face, something's got to give pretty soon.
Swallow, but can't stand the taste, bark at the wind, chase the moon.
Living fast and drinking lots.
List of things we haven't got.
Tired of life with the have-nots.
That's what you said and I believe it.
Maybe what you need's for someone to send you flowers.
Someone strong and mean who can prove he has the power to
show you more than charm and take you on your way
to where you want to be at the end of the day.
And it breaks my heart in two to know it ain't meant to be,
but it ain't me.
It ain't me.
Said that it's the things I do, about me that's attracted you.
So if I started doing something else, what would we have left?
And you say you just want compromise,
then act so different all the time.
Now the reasons why you said goodbye,
just another way of telling lies.
Something's got to give, got to give pretty soon
or else we're gonna lose the very things that made it bloom.
Sitting in silence in a cold and lonely room
while the world goes on around us.
Something's got to give, got to give pretty soon
or else we're gonna hate each other,
and that would be the saddest thing I ever seen.