Jewel - Buttercup lyrics

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Gee your mom looked like shit last night<br>Hope that tinker toy boyfriend tonks her right<br>Then again, I could never tell a fist fight from fun<br>Maybe I've never really known anyone<br><br>Just sat still and spit in the fire<br>I thought I might strangle you but I couldn't find a wire<br>You've never been the type to make your heart clear<br>Lest someone overhear<br><br>Words drown in your martini glass<br>Entire sentences slowly drunk or not<br>But before they slipped away I swore I coulda heard<br>Them say you wanted me, to be your buttercup<br>Say you need me to be your buttercup<br><br>The party reached a feverish pitch<br>Good time soldiers drunk and in a ditch<br>Infidelity a bomb that went off<br>That left the world to swerve and cough<br><br>Stepped over bodies strewn like shipwrecks<br>Love's last call, warning puke reflex<br>Faith is for that frozen few<br>That never met someone quite like you<br><br>Words drown in your martini glass<br>Entire sentences slowly drunk or not<br>But before they slipped away I swore I coulda heard<br>Them say you wanted me, to be your buttercup<br>Say you need me to be your buttercup<br><br>Fish don't know they're short, they just feel sideways<br>And words to you are just the same, they shy away<br><br>When legs and limbs are all tucked in<br>You pull me close to you come night<br>And I just like a fleshy fruit and hung from the bowl of your side<br>Your lips may not sell or say<br>What your eyes give away<br>You're sweet as pumpkin pie<br>I take the keys from your hand that stutters up<br>Let the night air sober you up<br>Driving home, you make me pull over<br>You press my hand gently as a four leaf clover<br><br>You say sweetheart, I'm a foolish man<br>I'm ornry and I'm stubborn like my coffee from a can<br>But without you I would shrivel up and die<br>Won't you be my<br>Won't you be my<br>Won't you be my<br>Words drown in your martini glass<br>Entire sentences slowly drunk or not<br>But before they slipped away I swore I coulda heard<br>Them say you wanted me, to be your buttercup<br>Say you need me to be your buttercup<br>Buttercup, your buttercup, ducks, shnucks, shlucks, shucks