The Mountain Goats - Standard Bitter Love Song #7 lyrics

You smile at me in total defiance of all decency You've got it down to a science That innocent look You've got it practiced real good But I know you'd k** me if you could stand the sight of blood If I'd'a been a fly on the wall a little earlier If I'd been one of the innumerable flies in this room If I'd'a been a fly on the wall a little earlier It woulda been real different around here You try to speak but the buzz is too loud And it's hard to make you laugh through the dense black cloud That surrounds us both It's just as well You call the rope Let the whole house go to hell If I'd'a been one of these flies I would have lodged myself firmly underneath your eyelid If I'd'a been one of these flies a little earlier It would have been real different around here.