the age of the understatement

decided

to sneak up away

from your stomach

and try your pulse

and captured

what seemed all

unknowing and candid

but they suspected

it was false

she's playful

the boring would

warn you be careful

of her brigade

in order to tame

this relentless marauder

move away from the parade

and she was walking on the tables

in the glass house

endearingly bedraggled in the wind

subtle in her method of seduction

the twenty little tragedies begin

and she would throw

a feather boa in the road

if she thought

that it would set the scene

unfittingly dipped

into your companions

enlighten them to make you seethe

and there's affection to rent

the age of the understatement

before the attraction ferments

kiss me properly and pull me apart

affection to rent

the age of the understatement

before this attraction ferments

kiss me properly and pull me apart

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

and my fingers scratch at my hair

before my mind can get too reckless

the idea of seeing you here

is enough to make the sweat grow cold

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh