The Bed Song Lyrics - Amanda Palmer

Exhibit A: We are friends in a sleeping bag 

Splitting the heat we have one filthy pillow to share 

And your lips are in my hair 

Someone upstairs has a rap that we laugh at 

And people are drinking and singing the scarborough fair 

On a ukelele dare 

Exhibit B: Well we found an apartment 

It's not much to look at 

A futon on the floor 

Dirty desktop for a door 

All the decors made of milk crates and duct tape 

And if we have sex they can hear us through the floor 

But we don't do that anymore 

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And I lay there wondering what is the matter 

Is this a matter of worse or of better 

You took the blanket so I took the bed sheet 

And I would have held if you'd only let me 

Exhibit C: Look how quaint and how quiet and private 

Our pay checks have bought us a condo in town 

It's the nicest flat around 

You picked a mattress and had it delivered 

And I walked upstairs and the sight of it made my heart pound 

And I wrapped my arms around me 

And I lay there wondering what is the matter 

Is this a matter of worse or of better 

You walked right past me and straightened the covers 

And I would still love you if you wanted a lover 

And you said: "All the money in the world 

Won't buy a bed so big and wide 

To guarantee that you won't accidentally touch me in the night 

Then I said: "You must be right" 

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Exhibit D: Now we are both mostly paralyzed 

Don't know how long we've been lying here in fear 

Too afraid to even feel 

I find my glasses and you turn the light out 

Roll off on your side like you've rolled away for years 

Holding back those king-sized tears 

And I still don't ask you what is the matter 

Is it a matter of worse or of better 

You take the heart-failure I'll take the cancer 

I've long since stopped wondering why you don't answer 

Exhibit E: You can certainly see 

How fulfilling a life from the cost and size of stone 

Of our final resting home 

We got some nice ones right under a cherry tree 

You and me lying the only way we know 

Side by side and still and cold 

And I finally ask you what was the matter 

Was this a matter of worse or of better 

You stretch your arms out and finally face me 

And said 

I would have told you if you'd only asked me 

you'd only asked me 

you'd only asked me