Mismatch Lyrics - Harry Chapin

At first you seemed just like my dream of a finer better life 

Much more than I could ask for in a lover or a wife 

Though I work with my body and my work makes my hands rough 

There are gentle things inside me that are anythin' but tough 

There are lessons you could teach me, things I do not know 

Things I've never done, girl, and places we could go 

But you only wear your tailored suits for me to rip and tear 

Ah, can't I hold you quietly and smell your perfumed hair 

I saw you as the answer that I never dared to dream 

I saw you as the window into a world I'd never seen 

I saw you as the vision come to raise me from the mud 

But you came to use my sweat to cool, the fever in your blood 

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When you call me your animal, it's a name I do not like 

Oh, please, do not tear my back, yes, of course I bleed 

The violence you thirst for is not what I need 

Your silken skin is armor that begs for brutal hands 

But why can't I be gentle and tell you of my plans 

And I know now that you're usin' me, not I just usin' you 

And you're not so scared of losin' me, as I of losin' you 

At first you seemed just like my dream of a finer better life 

Much more than I could ask for in a lover or a wife 

Though I work with my body and my work makes my hands rough 

There are gentle things inside me that are anythin' but tough 

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I saw you as the answer that I never dared to dream 

I saw you as the window into a world I'd never seen 

I saw you as the vision come to raise me from the mud 

But you came to use my sweat to cool, the fever in your blood