Knife & Fork Lyrics - Stan Ridgway

Chorus: 

I'm comin' back home to you 

Stuck to you like crazy glue 

Don't wanna go on living without 

Something left to shout about 

We'll play the game of love and fate 

I'll be the knife and fork, and you be the plate... 

Now welcome baby to my pad of delights 

Have a drink... do you like my tights? 

This switch here'll make the lights go down low 

And this one here makes all the bubbles go 

The water's warm, yes, a sunken tub 

Tonight you'll be joinin' my exclusive club 

Here now do you wanna see somethin' fine? 

Straight from singapore... cost me five and nine 

It's a picture of a man and an egyptian queen 

Kept in the family, if you know what I mean 

Chorus repeat 

Now I know you'll say my approach is direct 

But don't throw out this mail before you check 

We go together like fish and fin 

Aphrodite and zeus, water and gunga din 

We'll perform here on this sacrificial slab 

For your sweet, sweet love, I'll even go back to rehab 

Chorus repeat 

For you I'll even grow a pencil thin moustache 

You can put me in chains... I'll wear that wolf mask 

And you can starve me in your basement for a couple of weeks 

Just please let me squeeze one of your rosy cheeks 

I wanna float with you on a cumulus cloud 

I wanna take you far away from this maddening crowd 

You can scratch up my back with your long fingernails 

We'll drink some weird wine and eat psychedelic snails