Walk Away Renee (version) Lyrics - Billy Bragg

She said it was just a figment of speech 

And I said, "You mean figure?" 

And she said, "No, figment" 

Because she could never imagine it happening 

But it did. 

When we first met I played the shy boy 

And when she spoke to me for the first time 

My nose began to bleed 

She guessed the rest 

The next day we went on a bus ride to the ferry 

And when nobody came to collect our fares 

Well, I knew then this was something special 

I couldn't stop thinking about her 

And every time I switched on the radio 

There was somebody else singing a song about the two of us 

It was just like being on a fast ride at the funfair 

The sort you wanna get off because it?s scary 

And then as soon as you?re off 

You wanna get straight back on again 

But our love is strange 

And you have to take the crunchy with the smooth I s'pose 

She began going out with Mr Potato Head 

It was when I saw her in the car park 

With his coat around her shoulders that I realized 

I went home and thought about the two of them together 

Until the bath water went cold around me 

I thought about her eyes and the curve of her breasts 

And about the point where their bodies met 

I confronted her about it. 

I said, "I?m the most illegible bachelor in town." 

And she said, "Yea, that's why I can never understand 

Any of those silly letters you send me." 

And then one day it happened 

She cut 'er hair and I stopped lovin' 'er