Round and Round Lyrics

My house is now a mess again

I can't believe I cleaned it up for you

I'm not hip to playing chess again

Every time you make a move it makes me blue

It's a stalemate of emotion on a quick uneasy ocean

There's no potion of devotion you can brew

On a moist deserted island I keep looking for the highland

As your knight devours the queen that he once knew

And it's round and round and back again

Just staring at an eight by ten

And wishing we had been where we began

With another pint of I love you's

A vinyl heart and worn out shoes

And blues that send a shiver through the band

Don't pick another helpless flower

And say he loves me not this hour

So don't build me eighty castles in the sand

They'd never pass for what we had

When life was good and you were bad

And round and round was only what we'd planned

My thoughts were once a paradise

Of questions that weren't answered twice

Though vagabonds came knocking at the door

They rang and shouted trick or treat

I told them that they had to meet

A girl that I'd known twice and twice before

They ran away like April streams to follow someone else's dreams

And left me lying half drunk on the floor

Sailing up the river on a boat I called my liver

With a sliver in my heart I can't ignore

So it's round and round and back again

Just staring at an eight by ten

And wishing we had been where we began

With another pint of I love you's

A vinyl heart and worn out shoes

And blues that send a shiver through the band

Don't pick another helpless flower

And say he loves me not this hour

So don't build me eighty castles in the sand

They'd never pass for what we had

When life was good and you were bad

And round and round was only what we'd planned

My house is still a mess I guess

It gets that way when you undress

For paupers who keep reaching for your light

Asking for a midnight prayer

Until they find there's nothing there

To settle their confusion or their plight

I broke a sacred solemn vow

I told you why I told you how

Said I had the urge to make it right

You ran into a shattered mirror

I guess the future isn't clear

I'll shed another tear and say goodnight

Because it's round and round and back again

Just staring at an eight by ten

And wishing we had been where we began

With another pint of I love you's

A vinyl heart and worn out shoes

And blues that send a shiver through the band

So don't pick another helpless flower

And say he loves me not this hour

Don't build me eighty castles in the sand

They'd never pass for what we had

When life was good and you were bad

And round and round was only what we'd planned

My house is now a mess again

I can't believe I cleaned it up for you