Fear & Delight - The Correspondents

Oh, but I know you’ll cause me grief

Close friends of mine are in disbelief

As they can see what’s underneath

Fluttering lashes, red lips, and pearly white teeth

I don’t show it, but I quiver whenever you come near

And I cannot decipher between the thrill and the fear

I want to stop, but I like it too much to let it stop here

It’s wrong, but I want you tonight

It was not my own volition, but I fell in deep

By running the distance I’d been advised to keep

I trot to the wolf as a doting sheep

It’s wrong, but I want you tonight

Fear and delight all the way through the night

With a little

derring-do

, I’ll fall in love with you

Fear and delight all the way through the night

With a little derring-do, I’ll fall in love with you

I’m a little boy who’s going to be getting his fingers burnt

But I can see the lesson’s gotta, gotta, gotta be learnt

They say that boys have been destroyed, but they weren’t

It’s wrong, but I want you tonight

In any case, my friends, it’s too late

Like a moth to light, like a beast to bait

And I know the black widow eats its mate

It’s wrong but I want you tonight