The Belly of Your Bedroom - The Smith Street Band

Our hero sits unsteadily on a highway rocking chair

Bottle of white wine, the wind it ruffles his well-cut hair

And our eyes they focus backwards to the people that he needs

They hold my instruments and my back-ups in shirts with cut-off sleeves

She told me that she kissed you and then she told me more

Our hero knows I’m angry and he knows that I’m a bore

I’m sad when it is raining, when the sun comes I’m a freak

Our hero lives in mild temperatures and gets eight hours sleep

And I know that I’m a liar and I know that I can’t fill your desires With a

body that’s always going to let the both of us down

Half smiles in the belly of your bedroom

And half lies that I never should have told you

My demise is only going to let one of us down

And darling I’m going

My back it aches for transport, I can hardly feel my feet

My stitches are slowly but surely falling out of me

I know I’m not exciting but I never claimed to be

And I live for this morning and I will live and let you leave

I don’t understand why we have to be on standby while you’re overseas

Can’t you be free and still know me?

And our hero keeps a secret locked up somewhere in his teeth

Maybe I’ll break one or two just to hear him speak

And I know that I’m a liar and I know that I can’t fill your desires With a

body that’s always going to let the both of us down

Half smiles in the belly of your bedroom

And half lies that I never should have told you

My demise is only going to let one of us down

And darling I’m going

And darling I’m going to find somewhere for us to sleep

And darling I’m going to work on every single inch of me

And darling I’m going to find somewhere for us to sleep

And darling I’m going to keep on living, to keep on living

And keep on keeping on

And I know that I’m a liar and I know that I can’t fill your desires With a

body that’s always going to let the both of us down

Half smiles in the belly of your bedroom

And half lies that I never should have told you

My demise is only going to let one of us down

And darling I’m going down