
[verse 1] putrid toxins colour you lime green paint you a house, call you mine ask you have you been to this wasteland ever before? cause i think this is where my roots bore and it may be where i lay softly sedated, pathetically sore (forevermore) [chorus] it’s like arson when you speak heavy clouds when you leave can’t have it both ways can’t have you in any way cause i’m a waste, baby and this love is to die for in a wasteland like ours [verse 2] i’m mad about you (you know that, don’t you?) i never thought you the type to ransack then leave me on my lonesome i crawl back cause it’s all i know i crawl back shamelessly [chorus] it’s like arson when you speak heavy clouds when you leave can’t have it both ways can’t have you in any way cause i’m a waste, baby and this love is to die for in a wasteland like ours [outro] when you’re gone and you will be gone i’ll be but a speck of dust floatin’ around this wasteland (faithlessly) can’t have it both ways can’t have you in any way cause i’m a waste, baby