Tindersticks - For Those... lyrics

(N.B. This is the version from the Amsterdam LP. The lyrics of other versions differ slightly.)

Two hours twenty minutes

To one, five past

Now it's laying somewhere out there in the ground

And I've lost you

I was cheated

It was something belonged only to me

And now it's gone through my own stupidity

And I lost you

I was cheated

Two whole years spent earning your love

Now it's hanging around in the clouds

Well I've lost you

I was cheated

I'm cheated by my own vanity

Whispering rumours, bullying me

Well I spent it

It wasn't worth it

And for those who are not so beautiful as her

Not giving excuses, but oh...

When it's originally tossed away

It can easily be reclaimed by her

By her

All those years spent building myself up

Trying to stop my staring

And start taking two steps instead of one

But they're so gone now

chorus