Beecharmer - Nellie McKay

Sewed everything you said

Together in a thread

Repeating in my mind

Each word like a rhyme

Like a penny serenade

Looking through his song

He said the record's overplayed

But where did I go wrong

You never stayed at first

Could not commit the time

Ignored all the quirks

But he still did the crime

And when he goes away

I know you'll call and cry

And when he calls up to tell

Now I'm gonna cry

But I know you're mine

When you're on the line

Is it something I said

Would you let him walk away

Got it stuck in my head

Don't you hear a word I say

Is it something I said

Every night the same old moan

It's ahhh I'm waiting till my Joe comes home

Everytime he asks me how I feel

When I tell him the phone goes dead

I'm the queen of QVC

You're leaning on my ear

You mean the world to me

Though the connection isn't clear

Like my ink sputs 78's

Convenient when you're low

Feel like an antelope on a nature show

Oh no

I guess I gotta go

But I know you're mine

When you're on the line

Is it something I said

Would you let him walk away

Got it stuck in my head

Don't you hear a word I say

Is it something I said

Everytime we're on the phone

It's ahhh I'm waiting till my Joe comes home

Hey

Cast away romance

What's it gonna take

No knights with shiny armor

Hey

Try a different dance

Oh I'm a real bee charmer

Well I scold and I scratched to make him stay

But he don't wanna know from me

Why that old alley cat he runs away

Lock the door and lose the key

Is it something I said

Would you let him walk away

I got it stuck in my head

Don't you hear a word I say

Is it something I said

Every night the same trombone

It's ahhh I'm waiting till my Joe comes home

Hey

Let's forget romance

Let's correct romance

With knights in shiny armor

What's it gonna take

Try a different dance

Oh I'm a real bee charmer