Buttercup Lyrics - Jewel

Gee your mom looked like shit last night 

Hope that tinker toy boyfriend tonks her right 

Then again, I could never tell a fist fight from fun 

Maybe I've never really known anyone 

Just sat still and spit in the fire 

I thought I might strangle you but I couldn't find a wire 

You've never been the type to make your heart clear 

Lest someone overhear 

Words drown in your martini glass 

Entire sentences slowly drunk or not 

But before they slipped away I swore I coulda heard 

Them say you wanted me, to be your buttercup 

Say you need me to be your buttercup 

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The party reached a feverish pitch 

Good time soldiers drunk and in a ditch 

Infidelity a bomb that went off 

That left the world to swerve and cough 

Stepped over bodies strewn like shipwrecks 

Love's last call, warning puke reflex 

Faith is for that frozen few 

That never met someone quite like you 

Words drown in your martini glass 

Entire sentences slowly drunk or not 

But before they slipped away I swore I coulda heard 

Them say you wanted me, to be your buttercup 

Say you need me to be your buttercup 

Fish don't know they're short, they just feel sideways 

And words to you are just the same, they shy away 

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When legs and limbs are all tucked in 

You pull me close to you come night 

And I just like a fleshy fruit and hung from the bowl of your side 

Your lips may not sell or say 

What your eyes give away 

You're sweet as pumpkin pie 

I take the keys from your hand that stutters up 

Let the night air sober you up 

Driving home, you make me pull over 

You press my hand gently as a four leaf clover 

You say sweetheart, I'm a foolish man 

I'm ornry and I'm stubborn like my coffee from a can 

But without you I would shrivel up and die 

Won't you be my 

Won't you be my 

Won't you be my 

Words drown in your martini glass 

Entire sentences slowly drunk or not 

But before they slipped away I swore I coulda heard 

Them say you wanted me, to be your buttercup 

Say you need me to be your buttercup 

Buttercup, your buttercup, ducks, shnucks, shlucks, shucks