Bradford - To Have And To Hurt You

2rd track from Bradford's 89' album "Shouting Quietly", produced by Stephen Street.

Black jagged lines scream around our heads
I nail you with my eyes
Your eyes are red
Incendiary devices hidden in our mouths
This argument won't just fizzle out

Tango
And we dance with broken legs
My words
Leave ugly bruises on your confidence
I hate myself sometimes
Iron in my veins
I hate myself sometimes

To have and to hurt you
Cut to death by razor words
Strangled by language
The cruelest story ever heard
My poor little darling
I love more than anything
To have and to hurt you
Now the two of us are crying

My line in patience dissolves with tears
I make things worse
I shouldn't be here
Your sobbing and your shaking
Sticks a knife in my gut
So hopelessly true
We kill the thing that we love

For this mess I take the blame
Sometimes you're stupid
But even so
I really should try to be more understanding

To have and to hurt you
The mood is black
My mouth is blue
Beat up by language
I throw the sharpest words at you
My sweet little angel
I love you more than anything
To have and to hurt you
Now the two of us are crying
Now the two of us are crying

And so it's true
There is no beauty without cruelty
My throat is sand
Our hearts hang heavy like stones

To have and to hurt you
Now the two of us are crying