[Something's Got To] Give Pretty Soon - Drive-By Truckers

Way you look at me like that

Something’s got to give pretty soon

Throw it on a camel’s back

Something’s got to give pretty soon

Living hard to chase the dream

Way beyond our ways and means

Yours don’t mean a goddamn thing

That’s what you said but don’t believe it

Shattered look upon your face

Something’s got to give pretty soon

Swallow but can’t stand the taste

Bark at the wind, chase the moon

Living fast and drinking lots

List of things we haven’t got

Tired of life with the have-nots

That’s what you said and I believe it

Maybe what you need’s

For someone to send you flowers

Someone strong and mean

Who can prove he has the power

To show you more than charm

And take you on your way

To where you want to be

At the end of the day

It breaks my heart in two

To know it ain’t meant to be

But it ain’t me, it ain’t me

You say it’s these things I do

About me that’s attracted you

So if I started doing something else

What would we have left

And you say you just want compromise

Then act so different all the time

These reasons why you said goodbye

Just another way of telling lies

Something’s got to give, got to give pretty soon

Or else we’re gonna lose the very things that made it bloom

Sitting in silence in a cold and lonely room

While the world goes on around us

Something’s got to give, got to give pretty soon

Or else we’re gonna hate each other

And that would be the saddest thing I ever seen