I've kept my head against the wall 
 I've been this way for so long now 
 You weren't exactly falling over yourself 
 When last I saw you 
 Well I always thought 
 We'd get along like a house on fire 
 Until you told me that I'd have to go 
 How can someone like you work that slow. 
 Whatever you think of me 
 You listen hard and I will make you see 
 Whatever you think of me 
 You listen hard and I will make you see. 
    I don't feel anything no more 
 This state of grace is consuming me 
 I'm not grown up and I am not a boy 
 I feel no pain and I feel no joy 
 Well I always thought 
 We'd get along like a house on fire 
 In those days when the sun was warm 
 I ran in the street where I was born.   
 Whatever you think of me 
 You listen hard and I will make you see 
 Whatever you think of me 
 You listen hard and I will make you see.   
 The streets are so empty at this time of night 
 I'd rather walk on my own than fight 
 In a world where I'd forgotten you 
 I found myself forgotten, too 
 That's the danger of believing books 
 And all the lies of those thieves and crooks 
 We sing intellectual songs of love