WITNESS - Cheap Date lyrics

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She was on that dive bar dance floor; shakin to that eighties mix<br />

She's trying to stay afloat in a fleet of relationships<br />

So when they play The Smiths<br />

She plays the mannequin or gets another drink<br />

Until she's drunk enough to dance again<br />

I'm standing in the corner while they're handling my order<br />

When I caught her trying to frolic in my field of vision<br />

She isn't my type, but that's alright<br />

I'd like to keep it all platonic cause I've got the premonition that<br />

She's never kissed a boy without a drink on his breath<br />

And she's never loved a man who didn't remind her of daddy<br />

She'll dance with dollar bottles singing "Living On A Prayer"<br />

If the bar can keep it's promise that an hour makes her happy<br />

She doesn't wear the locket that she got when she was six<br />

She wears the skirt a little lower on the weekdays<br />

She likes men that don't exist the morning after<br />

Cause a secret is a secret but a lover is a cheap date<br />

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He was in the dive bar drinking on a champagne budget<br />

Cause he ain't nobody's husband when the buzz is in effect<br />

He tips the bartender single increments because<br />

She gives a little wink and then she shoves em in her dress<br />

You know the type<br />

Over forty, from Boston<br />

Only kicking game at women young enough to be his offspring<br />

She's trying to talk him into buying her a lager<br />

And pretend he don't remind her of her father<br />

He graduated with honors and got a job he hates<br />

Cause what the dreamers call a home he calls a trash heap<br />

He'll have another half a dozen gin and tonics<br />

If the bar can keep it's promise that an hour makes him happy<br />

He's been with women that never noticed his wedding ring<br />

He keeps a picture of his children in his briefcase<br />

They keep his wrists from the kisses of a razor<br />

And it's hard to find a savior in the city these days<br />

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I was in the dive bar bathroom listening to last call<br />

I'm looking at a broken mirror like a glass ball<br />

Double vision was effecting the judgment<br />

But I wouldn't recognize that reflection if it wasn't<br />

Dude is buggin. Don't he know it's dangerous<br />

Assuming he knows a human he ain't even acquainted with?<br />

And maybe it's all peace as long as it ain't him<br />

But fed his own medicine, what would he say then?<br />

I bet he's never won a fist fight in his life<br />

And he's only charismatic when he's speaking on a back beat<br />

He'll catch a buzz and fall in love with a stranger<br />

If the bar can keep it's promise that an hour makes him happy<br />

Stereotypically skinny disheveled white boy<br />

Music elitist, guaranteed to hate the deejay<br />

He's trying to stress that he's so damn different<br />

I bet he didn't even notice he's the cliches he hates