Why Shouldn't I ? - Stephen Duffy

If in stockinged feet you worry me

With feelings, soft lies

And too few binding bonds

Drop your defences, let me rest my case

Chelsea Bridge is falling

Around our embrace

Why shouldn’t I love you?

Why shouldn’t I love you?

The small rooms of poverty offer no escape

The menu is the same

Too much of nothing on your plate

And when the lines of worry

Don’t relax when you sleep

Every dream’s a housing scheme

A promise they won’t keep

I followed your career

From the classroom to the tears

Through every well thumbed magazine

The school report, the might’ve been

The day that you stopped fighting

Was the day you stopped delighting

So paint the sneer back on your face

Turn off the TV and pack your case

Then we’ll be gone