You Could Have Both Lyrics - Someone To Drive You Home - The Long Blondes

I retire to bed early most nights 

You follow me in or you don't 

And either way, it's alright 

You've been going with her now for seventeen weeks 

But that doesn't make a blind bit of difference to me 

Just when you're ready to take on the world 

Some other girl had to get there first 

And it's obvious that you're a man that's out to own her 

But you know where I am 

And you know that you could have both 

She's away 

And you get by without her very well 

If I'm around 

You get by without her even better 

I don't kid myself about happy endings 

I'm too old for that now 

Out on my doorstep, your lip burst and bleeding 

Well, that was a crash course for me 

Acting the film star while you were still spoken for 

It didn't look rosy for me 

But I've considered the alternatives 

A few degrees of separation can't be that bad 

Just when you're ready to take on the world 

Some other girl had to get there first 

And it's obvious that you're a man that's out to own her 

But you know where I am 

And you know that you could have both 

I wanted the world 

But some other girl had to get there first 

And it's obvious that you're a man that's out to own her 

But you know where I am 

So stop! 

"I feel like C.C. Baxter in Wilder's 'Apartment', 

That particular arrangement just came out of the blue 

And who was it who sang 'I know that you love one 

So why can't you love two?' 

I was in full-time education when I got scared of the future 

And I've only got a job so I don't disappoint my mother 

It's like I've painted myself into a social corner 

Well, that's what happens when you listen to 

Saint Scott Walker 

On headphones 

On the bus. 

What about us? What about us? 

My friends come round and they ask me 'What about us?' 

My friends come round and they ask me 'What about us?' 

You know I don't kid myself about happy endings 

I'm too old for all that now 

But you don't have to worry that much about the future 

And it's not as if you ever did before 

Because you'll always have everything just as you want it 

And there'll always be a phone to ring at three in the morning 

And you'll always have someone who'll drive you home 

Yes, you'll always have someone, someone to drive you home. 

Someone to drive you home." 

Just when you're ready to take on the world 

Some other girl has to get there first 

And it's obvious that you're a man that's out to own her 

But you know where I am 

And you know what I want 

And I know I'll never have you completely alone 

So I'm trying to draw up a contingency plan 

And it's obvious that you're a man that's out to own her 

But you know where I am 

And you know that you could have both 

You could have both 

You could have both