Whatever You Want Lyrics

Artist: Vienna Teng

Title: Whatever You Want

Album: Dreaming Through the Noise

he's a company man

your right hand

13 years and counting

no detectable ambition

a model of efficiency

far as you can see

he knows every loophole

the art of fine print

massages the numbers 'til they fit

and every time you ask him for another vanishing act

he half-smiles as if to say

whatever you want

whatever you want is fine by me

never a real moment together but she understands

you're an important man

another late night

don't know if you're coming home or when

she's alone again

but she goes on curating your domestic museum

she disappears in her loyalty

she is a dress wearing a face in the doorway

opening her arms out to you

no one would dare to question you

oh no.

no one would dare to stand up.

but in the night she leaves the papers in a tidy pile:

evidence for her reasons

and in the night he takes the main accounts and pulls the files

detailing every treason.

I am the last one you'd ever suspect of setting the fire

but as you switch on your TV tomorrow morning

you'll hear me saying quietly:

whatever you say

I'll do what you ask me

but do you know who's listening?

you know it's over.