Sticks & Stones, Girl Lyrics - Del Amitri

Here I am, hardly breathing in at all 

I cough when I can and that's about all 

I am this man and though I turn the tape to a happier song 

My face can't find a smile because it's been looking too long 

You arrive like a locust swarm 

You devastated me and now when you leave the room 

My heart, head, hands and all forms 

Go from red-hot blood to bone dry and lukewarm 

You're the sticks and stones, girl 

You're the fire and flames 

I might be half-dead and half-born, girl 

But whales start singing when I hear your name 

I'm heaped with hate like acid rain 

Nothing can restrain the loathing and disgust I have 

And there is no one I distrust 

More than the happy whores who buy and trade 

Crawling on all fours, backwards into holes and fires 

That wealth and self-congratulations made 

You're the sticks and stones, girl 

You're the fire and flames 

You're the punishment, the pleasure, the employment and the leisure 

You're the sweet conversation and the cutting names 

Heart, head, hands and all forms 

Went from red-hot blood to bone dry and lukewarm 

Whales stopped singing and the ships were bringing in toadstools 

And moss instead of sugar beet and corn 

And all the girls in the world were distorted and deformed 

When the first leech was let loose and my jealousy was born 

You're the sticks and stones, girl 

You're the fire and flames