How To Be Good - Minnie Driver

I could write the book of you

And illustrate the pages

You shouldn’t read it

I’m the one that you put down,

It was written in a hurry,

Slipped through your fingers.

I do everything I should

Still got to learn,

How to be good.

You got two strong arms I see,

Can’t you bring them around

Wrap them around me?

I lay my storms down at your feet

Maybe you’ll build a shelter,

Maybe do my heart work for me.

Oh, I kick and scream,

But the job is mine,

So I’ll stay by the ocean

You got your own hills to climb.

I do everything I should

Still got to learn,

How to be good.

You got two strong arms I see,

Can’t you bring them around

Wrap them around me?

And I know that I am full of holes

Still they let me, see on through to the other side.

And the southern cross has got you in her sights.

I do everything I should

Still got to learn,

How to be good.

You got two strong arms I see,

Can’t you bring them around

Wrap them around me?

Gotta wrap 'em around

Gotta wrap 'em around

Gotta wrap 'em around me…

I do everything I should

Still got to learn,

How to be good.

You got two strong arms I see,

Can’t you bring them around

Wrap them around me