Belinda - Ben Folds, Nick Hornby

Every night around this time

He has to sing 'Belinda'

«Belinda, I love you

Don’t leave me, I need you»

He tried to stop a while back

But what is he without her?

A one hit wonder with no hits is what he is

And anyway

He always hears how much it means to people

There’s a lot of fortysomethings

Who wouldn’t be in the world without it

So now he does it with this lyric in his head

Belinda, I loved you

I’m sorry that i left you

I met somebody younger on a plane

She had big breasts

A nice smile

No kids either

She gave me complimentary champagne

No-one ever wants to hear the song he wrote for Cindy

«Cindy, I love you

I need you, don’t leave me»

And he can’t blame them, they can tell

His heart was never in it

And Cindy never liked it but

She never much liked him

Belinda, I loved you

I’m sorry that i left you

I met somebody younger on a plane

She had big breasts

A nice smile

No kids either

She gave me complimentary champagne

So every night about this time

He feels the old self loathing

While the old folks in the audience sing along

And he smiles and waves the mic at them

So they can do the chorus

But he’s not there, he’s somewhere else

He’s with Belinda

In the days before he made it all go wrong

Belinda, I love you

She gave me complimentary champagne

She gave me complimentary champagne