The Mountain Goats - Poltergeist lyrics

I can't stand it when you tell our infant son That he was born beneath a bad sign And I can't stand it when he smiles up at you Just because you're his mother And I can't stand the bitter thing that I've become Between the four walls that hold up our ceiling And I wonder when the house gets real quiet Who between us will be the first one to give into the feeling And I know you don't want me to hurt you tonight And I, I don't want you to hurt me the way you do I can't stand it when you put the boy to bed And you sing him those songs I used to sing to you Yeah, I can't stand to hear you sing those songs When you know you don't mean them And I can't stand the way my body still remembers How much we used to mean to one another way back when And I can't stand going back to seek the shelter of your arms And then I can't stand it again And I know you don't want me to hurt you tonight And I, I don't want you to hurt me the way you do