Bathwater

Album: Return of Saturn (2000)
Charted: 17
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  • You and your museum of lovers
    The precious collection you've housed in your covers
    My simpleness threatened by my own admission

    And the bags are much too heavy
    In my insecure condition
    My pregnant mind is fat full with envy again

    But I still love to wash in your old bathwater
    Love to think that you couldn't love another
    I can't help it, you're my kind of man

    Wanted and adored by attractive women
    Bountiful selection at your discretion
    I know I'm diving into my own destruction

    So why do we choose the boys that are naughty?
    I don't fit in so why do you want me?
    I know I can't tame you, but I just keep trying

    'Cause I love to wash in your old bathwater
    Love to think that you couldn't love another
    I'm on your list with all your other women
    But I still love to wash in your old bathwater
    You make me feel like I couldn't love another
    I can't help it, you're my kind of man

    Why do the good girls
    Always want
    The bad boys?

    So I pacify problems with kisses and cuddles
    Diligently doubtful through all kinds of trouble
    Then I find myself choking on all my contradictions

    'Cause I still love to wash in your old bathwater
    Love to think that you couldn't love another
    Share a toothbrush, you're my kind of man
    I still love to wash in your old bath water
    Make me feel like I couldn't love another
    I can't help it, you're my kind of man

    Woo
    Doo-doo-ooh
    Doo-doo-doo
    Doo-doo-ooh

    No, I can't help myself
    I can't help myself
    I still love to wash in your old bathwater
    Ooh Writer/s: Gwen Stefani, Thomas Dumont, Toni Kanal
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Amelia from Modesto, CaLove the song, the meaning is a bit gross though Haha
  • Melissa from San Jose, Cabathing in bath water just seems a bit ... whats the word,gross. no matter how much i like a guy, i do not plan to bathe in his OLD bath water.
  • Cortney from Savannah, GaThis is one of my favorites because its lets me know im not the only one weird...gosh rejection hurts
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