Bad News (At the Best of Times)

Well, I opened your last letter

Thinking things could only get better

But it was bad news at the best of times

Tap water dressed as tears

I know that trick through all these years

But it was bad news at the best of times

Some things just cannot be expressed

And some bad things we do for the best

It would have been bad news at the best of times

It would have been bad news at the best of times

Had my tongue in my cheek when you were mind

It would have been bad news at the best of times whooo

My eyes are tired and itching

Got me walking round the kitchen

It would have been bad news at the best of times

Started coughing once too often

I can't stop till I don't think of you

It would have been bad news at the best of times

What price for tomorrow's bride

Widowed when her daydream died?

It would have been bad news at the best of times

Bad news best of times

I used to wake up laughing, huh, when you were mine

It would have been bad news at the best of times

Baby baby, believe in me just one more time

I've never asked you to before

I'm as guilty as the day I was born

Of begging you, pleading you

Loving you and needing you

When things go this wrong

Next time I'd be so strong

It would have been bad news at the best of times

Driving backwards in a hearse

Thinking things can't get any worse

It would have been bad news at the best of times

The camera never lies for sure, baby that's for sure

But you're a sight for these eyes so sore

It would have been bad news at the best of times

It would have been bad news at the best of times

It's stronger than memories when you were mine

It would have been bad news at the best of times

It would have been bad news at the best of times

I used to wake up laughing

It would have been bad news at the best of times

When you were mine, baby

Oooh oooh

Had my tongue in my cheek

It would have been bad news at the best of times

Sing it

Oooh oooh yeah

Bad news

Bad news