Love Like This

[Intro] Years-years-years ago, my mother used to say to me She'd say: "In this world Elwood, you must be-" she would always called me Elwood "In this world Elwood, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant." Well for years I was smart; I recommend pleasant. You may quote me [Hook] If I'd known there was love like this I'd have grabbed a fucking scalpel I'd have slit my wrists In the goddamn delivery room Hell I'd have jumped back in the womb Love be the shit that's gonna seal my doom [Verse 1: Scroobius Pip] Just cause you made our bed didn't mean you had to lie in it And look me in the eye saying together 'til we die and shit Well feel my fucking pulse cause I ain't fucking dead yet Listen close as it echoes through your headset When we first met I didn't know what I was doing And I guess you were sick of that girl's boyfriend you were screwing Instead of thinking in my head, were you worth persuing I should have looked into your eyes and seen a storm was brewing But you needed a new angle so you intercepted my life line I must admit you were looking good, so I granted you my time Behind every acute angle, you find an obtuse one As a hand caressed my thigh over my head a fresh noose hung But with this one I really thought I could trust her We'd got all close over time I thought that maybe I'd sussed her I threw my heart shaped anchor with all the strength I could muster It fell short and ripped the hard seabed up in clusters But that didn't faze me, I just kept on going With my chest ripped open and my heart still showing I was naive like that, see my mind was still growing I thought with trust and persistence that the love would start flowing But it didn't so I pushed and pushed to invoke New levels of love but instead we just broke And at that point you chose to let me in And that's where all the problems began to begin [Hook] X2 [Second Verse] Now just suppose I was to juxtapose your soft white cheek against my nose Would you look me in the eyes and fall in love like the T.V. shows? Or maybe if I took a rose An envelope with a note enclosed That told you that the love I have inside me like a flower grows Would it really make any fucking difference? Cause it shouldn't Would you sell yourself for one cheap gesture? Cause I couldn't and I wouldn't I know that's all it'd take to win you back But I ain't looking to soil my shoes on such a well trodden track So you can take your love by numbers and put it up there on the rack And impose your shit and baggage on some other mindless hack And just suppose I was to juxtapose my tightened fist against your nose Releasing blood with colour deeper than the deepest rose Releasing streams of anger that we all have yet no one shows Release me from the fucking chains of heartbreak that you still impose And that'd be wrong and I ain't gonna do it But there ain't no harm in putting this plot in my mind and walking through it So fuck you for still spending time with my friends And fuck them for not knowing what's appropriate and when And it's fuck up that all the good times seem to blend Into one big fucking mess from the beginning to the end So take a good look at my face And you'll see this little smile seems out of place But go ahead and look closer but I'll never let you trace The tracks of my tears [Hook] X3