Belinda

Album: Lonely Avenue (2010)
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  • Every night around this time
    He has to sing 'Belinda'
    "Belinda, I love you
    Don't leave me, I need you"

    He tried to stop a while back
    But what is he without her?
    A one hit wonder with no hits is what he is

    And anyway
    He always hears how much it means to people
    There's a lot of forty-somethings
    Who wouldn't be in the world without it
    So now he does it with this lyric in his head

    Belinda, I loved you
    I'm sorry that I left you
    I met somebody younger on a plane
    She had big breasts
    A nice smile
    No kids either
    She gave me complimentary champagne

    No one ever wants to hear the song he wrote for Cindy
    "Cindy, I love you
    I need you, don't leave me"
    And he can't blame them, they can tell
    His heart was never in it
    And Cindy never liked it but
    She never much liked him

    Belinda, I loved you
    I'm sorry that I left you
    I met somebody younger on a plane
    She had big breasts
    A nice smile
    No kids either
    She gave me complimentary champagne

    So every night about this time
    He feels the old self-loathing
    While the old folks in the audience sing along
    And he smiles and waves the mic at them
    So they can do the chorus
    But he's not there, he's somewhere else
    He's with Belinda
    In the days before he made it all go wrong

    Belinda, I love you

    She gave me complimentary champagne
    She gave me complimentary champagne Writer/s: BEN FOLDS, BENJAMIN SCOTT FOLDS, NICHOLAS PETER JOHN HORNBY, NICK HORNBY
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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