Knife and Fork - Stan Ridgway

I’m comin’back home to you

Stuck to you like crazy glue

Don’t wanna go on living without

Something left to shout about

We’ll play the game of love and fate

I’ll be the knife and fork, and you be the plate…

Now welcome baby to my pad of delights

Have a drink… do you like my tights?

This switch here’ll make the lights go down low

And this one here makes all the bubbles go The water’s warm, yes, a sunken tub

Tonight you’ll be joinin’my exclusive club

Here now do you wanna see somethin’fine?

Straight from Singapore… cost me five and nine

It’s a picture of a man and an Egyptian queen

Kept in the family, if you know what I mean

Chorus repeat

Now I know you’ll say my approach is direct

But don’t throw out this mail before you check

We go together like fish and fin

Aphrodite and Zeus, water and Gunga Din

We’ll perform here on this sacrificial slab

For your sweet, sweet love, I’ll even go back to rehab

Chorus repeat

For you I’ll even grow a pencil thin moustache

You can put me in chains… I’ll wear that wolf mask

And you can starve me in your basement for a couple of weeks

Just please let me squeeze one of your rosy cheeks

I wanna float with you on a cumulus cloud

I wanna take you far away from this maddening crowd

You can scratch up my back with your long fingernails

We’ll drink some weird wine and eat psychedelic snails