I love you more than any man,
But something's getting in the way
I do you harm because I can,
For the second time today
Victims we are not of happenstance,
But you're a victim all the same
Stuck inside a circumstance,
With your confusion and your blame

And when I get drunk,
You take me home
And keep me safe from harm
When I get drunk, you take me home

I ask you for another second chance,
But then I drink it all away
And I get bellicose when you react,
For love, frustration and dismay
I was so delicate when we began,
So tender when I spoke your name
But now I'm nothing but a partisan,
To my compulsion and my shame

And when I get drunk,
You take me home
And keep me safe from harm
When I get drunk, you take me home

You know I'm grateful, I appreciate
But in fact it's baleful, how I suck you dry
How I suck you
How I suck you dry

I love you more than any man,
But I seem to lay it all to waste
I do you harm because I can,
With a joke in questionable taste
I've such duplicity at my command,
So I keep on lying to your face
Then I run away to wonderland,
Disappear without a trace

And when I get drunk,
You take me home
And keep me safe from harm
When I get drunk, you take me home

You know I'm grateful, I appreciate
But in fact it's baleful, how I suck you dry
How I suck you
How I suck you dry