The Getaway Lyrics
You are very young, you are clever, and you are very beautiful
Because of your youth, you should be exceptionally valuable to us
And I was very lonely, so I thought tonight I will have an adventure
If I'm never to see you again, I can forget you in a minute, you'll see
[Refrain]
She's just pretending
She's just pretending
She's just pretending
You were wrong, I wasn't
I loved you
She's just pretending
She's just pretending
She's just pretending
You were wrong, I wasn't
I loved you
[Verse 1]
Well, this thing that we had built was flaying into shreds
It was sharp and it was dry
Like the hair on a shrunken head
And all the king's men spread the pieces on the floor
By the time they fit together
We had forgotten what they were for
Pretending like she's beautiful in the pictures I can see
But she only picks the good ones
And that's more than I can say for me, ooh
[Chorus]
But that's the way it always starts
You feel like Lily and the Jack of Hearts
Always making out like bandits
Until you get away and it falls apart
It falls apart
[Verse 2]
You're always dressed up like a priest
You're always drilling through the wall
Cracking the safe and skipping town
While poor Rosemary takes the fall
You're always looking for the future
Rinsing out the dye
Looking for a moral to the story that sounded good and happened to rhyme
Rosemary on the gallows
Dressed like nothing's wrong
No funeral, no flowers
For an outlaw in a song, ooh
[Chorus]
But that's the way it always starts
You feel like Lily and the Jack of Hearts
Always making out like bandits
Until you get away and it falls apart
It falls apart
[Refrain]
She's just pretending
She's just pretending
She's just pretending
You were wrong, I wasn't
I loved you
She's just pretending
She's just pretending
She's just pretending
You were wrong, I wasn't
I loved you
[Chorus]
But that's the way it always starts
You feel like Lily and the Jack of Hearts
Always making out like bandits
Until you get away and it falls apart
It falls apart, ooh
[Outro]
But that's the way it always starts (That's the way it always starts)
That's the way it always starts (That's the way it always starts)
That's the way it always starts (That's the way it always starts)
You feel like Lily and the Jack of Hearts
I wasn't, I loved you
