Touchy Situation

Album: Singing to Strangers (2019)
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  • I'd like to find out what places she's been
    What's behind her locked door
    Or better yet, know if I'm out or I'm in
    If the renovator still runs the top floor
    Perhaps she would say
    She was a student of hope
    And I'm dangling from the end
    Of a disintegrating rope
    But I don't wish to spark off
    Her outraged imagination
    I don't wish to get into
    Any double-edged conversation

    It's a touchy situation
    Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh, yes
    It's a touchy situation
    Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh, yes

    Someday I'll find out
    What I'm now afraid to ask
    And I'll discover what lies there
    Beneath the doormats
    Perhaps she would say
    That I'm just deathly afraid
    To see her make the same
    Mistake that I made
    And it might lead to
    Some sweet revelation
    She knows I hate
    Eating this conversation

    It's a touchy situation
    Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh, yes
    It's a touchy situation
    Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh, yes

    I say, "Are you doing well, baby?"
    She says, "Go ask your father"
    I say, "Give me yes, no, or maybe"
    She says, "Why should I bother?"
    I say
    She says
    I say, oh
    I'll ask you tomorrow
    I'll ask you tomorrow

    If I could only break the code of her fears, I could
    Expose the secrets to the river of her tears
    Rattle her senses 'til she's blowin' for a kiss, oh, hey
    Before she'd exercise
    Those powers of manipulation

    It's a touchy situation
    It's a touchy situation
    It's a touchy situation
    Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh, yes
    It's a touchy situation
    Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh, yes

    It's a touchy situation
    It's a touchy situation
    It's a touchy situation
    It's a touchy situation Writer/s: Jack Savoretti, Robert Dylan
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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