Eating Each Other's Babies Lyrics - John Wesley Harding

She flares up, they start to fight 

A chemical reaction late into the night 

Once they're out of love, now they're outta sight 

That's alright 

When silence reigns, it's strange weather 

Why do you have to leave me for a man 

Who couldn't tie his shoe-laces together? 

He's had the last laugh but the joke's on him 

He could've had a final bang but drags on with a whimper 

When dogs bark 

And when cats meow 

Two humans are the animals they knew they could be now 

Sniffing round each other's dirt 

Fighting til it starts to hurt 

And eating each other's babies 

Paperback's get thrown, the story unfolds 

Two lost sheep who couldn't find the fold 

They got no common sense, couldn't catch the common cold 

I've been told 

She fights tooth and claw, he starts to abuse her 

You show me someone who takes losing well 

And I'll show you a loser 

He's a very small man wearing very big clothes 

There's no room for expansion but there's plenty of room for growth 

When dogs bark 

And when cats meow 

Two humans fighting middleweight, instead of middlebrow 

Picking on those little things 

Tearing off each other's wings 

And eating each other's babies 

We're stuck here in this cage 

Playing out this prison game 

Committing all these war crimes 

Time after time after time after time after time 

Something clicks, time to get soft 

She's getting on, he's getting off 

On the way she splutters with her little cough 

That's enough 

They're so adept, he used to spoil her 

Sometimes we get so see through 

Think I'm living out some potboiler 

Remember me forever in your gallery 

When all your past is catalogued and filed alphabetically 

When dogs bark 

And when cats meow 

We don't have to say anything final now 

Let's kiss and make up 

Put off the break up 

Let's eat each other's babies 

Let's eat each other's babies 

Let's eat each other's babies