Bad Fruit Lyrics

On the long slow slide to Calvary

Or was it an airplane flying home

Well, I met her when I was born

And we went off to roam

We ended up in Italy

The rain was pouring down

She was wearing her party dress

She'd got me dressed up like a Pierrot clown

As the sun climbed up my window

The alarm went off again

I had to leave right after that warning

I just could not be contained

I took my love for her away

But she never left my mind

She said "You know I don't mind looking you in the eyes

But I wish you wouldn't be unkind"

And I said: "From one quick bite of a bad fruit

To today in seconds flat

Do you still have that hat I gave you?

Do you still think that it will save you?

And just between you and me

This life is not as long as it's cracked up to me

I've been here so long, it feels like I'm growing roots

Took one quick bite of a bad fruit"

Well, I fell in love with being in love

And she fell in love with a snake

And all he gave her was social security

And a slice of his birthday cake

And I went back to the house we renovated

In that row on Nowhere Street

And I sat there writing my obituary

Waiting for a chance to complete it

Something happened in some big city

Somewhere, sometime, somehow

That's as far as I can go

I checked in my pockets

And the petals you gave me were still in there

So it wasn't a dream I know

As my ships sailed from the harbour

She waved from on dry land

A redheaded woman told me last Thursday

"You have to go backwards if you want to understand"

And I shout: "From one quick bite of a bad fruit

To today in seconds flat

Do you still have that cat I gave you?

Do you still think that it will save you?

And just between you and me

This life is not as long as it's cracked up to me

I've been here so long, it feels like I'm growing roots

Took one quick bite of a bad fruit"