The Age Of The Understatement : <br />Decided <br />To sneak up away from your stomach <br />And try your pulse <br />And captured <br />What seemed all unknowing and candid <br />But they suspected it was false <br /><br />She's playful <br />The boring would warn you be careful <br />Of her brigade <br />In order to tame this relentless marauder <br />Move away from the parade <br /><br />And she was walking on the tables in the glass house <br />Endearingly bedraggled in the wind <br />Subtle in her method of seduction <br />The twenty little tragedies begin <br /><br />And she would throw a feather boa in the road <br />If she thought that it would set the scene <br />Unfittingly dipped into your companions <br />Enlighten them to make you see <br /><br />And there's affection to rent <br />The age of the understatement <br />Before the attraction ferments <br />Kiss me properly and pull me apart <br /><br />Affection to rent the age of the understatement <br />Before this attraction ferments <br />Kiss me properly and pull me apart <br /><br />And my fingers scratch at my hair <br />Before my mind can get too reckless <br />The idea of seeing you here <br />Is enough to make the sweat grow cold
