You had a look down your nose
at my Christmas clothes
You had a drink on me in my Chevy suit
And while the night was turning black
You refused to get inside the cab
and leave Downtown Beirut
I threw your cape around your shoulders
And in a voice that sounded older
than the heads of states you hated
And you said you wanted me to kill
I said I don't know you
Though I'm haunted too
If I don't know you now
Never I will, never I will,
never I will
First you sold your family heirlooms
and your manners
For a checkered that they said
would bring you luck
Then you gave your prudent body
to a sailor on shore
From a ship he called
the Fortunate One
When you traveled across the sea
Then decided you'd come home to me
But I was hanging beneath a dead tree
on a green hill
Because I don't know you
Thought I wanted to
If I don't know you now
Never I will, never I will
Never I will
Honey, you're the vile queen
A star up on a screen
You swallow down a chokin' potion
On a personality
And I don't know if I want it to end
If I don't know, you know
Never I will, never I will, never I will
I don't know I tried to apologize
And honey that is
when you came in for the kill
And when I tried to win you back,
you took a rifle from your rack
And I danced till you had your fill
And when you see me on the road,
you summon up your moral code
You got something to prove to me
still you