Me and my lawyer sat down and worked out The full cost of the wrongs I have done you And I'm sending the money to you The cheque's in the post
For giving you hell When I should have been treating you well Reparation: 500 £5 notes in a roll
For remarks about your weight For complaining when you were late Compensation: £2000, the going rate
For the times we were out And my eye kept roving about Settling on younger women Fifteen hundred, say it's forgiven
Running total: £6 350 With tax added on And that's Just the end of verse one
For attacking your superstition Your pantheistic new age religion Say the sum of £1797
When I said your new dress wasn't splendid When I told you the way the film ended I know I was wrong: accept this token £7000
And for passing the pictures I'd taken Of your body totally naked Around our friends Let's call it a round £9 000
Running total: £24 063 On its way to you And this is just the end of verse two
Me and my lawyer sat down and worked out The real cost of the wrongs I have done you And I'm sending the money to you The cheque's in the post
And for my next indiscretion When we had sex on the floor of the kitchen I sang it in a song -- accept 10 000 -- make that 11 000 pounds
And for failing to give enough time To the baby that could have been mine It's not that I don't care My love it's just so hard to find a figure
Worst of all I stopped loving your body Making you feel so low Though my lawyer says no blame can be apportioned For circumstances beyond my control So now I'm all paid up And absolved from this guilt I'm going to get another girl in Under my quilt And run up Another massive debt
Hail Mary, pray for me now Now and at the hour of my death
Compositor: Nicholas John Currie ECAD: Obra #5327868