HOUNDSTOOTH Lyrics

Oh I'm ragged and rough and I live in the city alone

And I slept with a man with a mind like the Rosetta Stone

In his face, though, I pictured you

And I woke in the morning so brazen and bored and blue, it's true

And I hoped it would hurt if you knew

Oh I tore up my love songs and lost all my language for you

And I finally found a new downtown to rove my way through

But I dream of being something else

And I fear becoming, but

Everyday I try so hard to trace the forms of who we are

And I'm sick of being such a wreck but I'll beg like a dog at your door

Till a ring's on the finger of someone you love more

Now I bare all my teeth and I fall at your feet for a bone

And I howl at the moon-flooded skyscraper stacks on my own

And I've grown a conspicuous pelt

I've been touching your name on my phone more than I touch myself

Once I saw you in rose coloured tones, now I see you in grey

And I'm feral and fierce but you've got me obedience trained

And your address still hangs 'round my neck

That I'll keep running home to

But everyday I wake alone, how I've grown and grown and grown

And I've lost all self respect so I'll beg like a dog at your door

Till a ring's on the finger of someone you love more

And I'll beg like a dog, like a dog, like a dog at your door

And I'm not the same woman you loved

I'm vicious and I'm violent

Oh, what a shame you tripped on my tongue and caught on my houndstooth scarf

We fall apart

And I'm so sick of being alone, so I'll beg like a dog

Aa-ooh, aa-ooh

Till a ring's on the finger of someone you love more


Till a ring's on the finger of someone you love