Jennifer

It's a shame that I don't love you better

Fateful words emblazoned on your sweater

Made to move him

From a distance

Every line to outline your resistance.

Jennifer, why do you have to be so taciturn? (2x)

Fortunately he tries to placate her

Tying notes to broken kitchenalia

The way the ink blots

On the sink stops

Him from carving thoughts into the worktops

Jennifer, why do you have to be so taciturn? (2x)

The knots she ties

In almost all her clothes

Are growing greater by the day

Her April showers

Will have soon devoured

The alacrity of May.

Jennifer, why do you have to be so taciturn? (2x)

It was always going to end like this (3x)

It was always going to end like...