Policar, 2003.
The house is palatial, the garden looks great,
The kids out of college, promotions achieved;
I'm "busy" at home while you're out "working" late...
If you asked me about it I'd say I'm relieved
The mortgage is paid off, there's plenty of savings,
I don't mind your affairs if you keep them discreet,
The doctors prescribe pills to ward off the cravings;
It's like what we had, but it isn't as sweet.
And this isn't our problem, we just aren't in the mood,
What we have's not what we had, but it's enough.
If it isn't a solution being solvent's just as good,
That's the beauty of our homeopathic love.
You're an unpleasant drunk, but we never go out
Or get drunk with our friends... I think nobody knows,
And it's easy for me now: whenever you shout
I just shake out a heavier dose.
So we keep our facades and collect all the prizes
For avoiding the crises and beating the odds;
But I want something more and I know what the price is
For treating the lucre as if it were god.
And there isn't a solution to a problem we don't have,
And there's no trace left of what we built us of...
We diluted it in solvency and built the golden calf --
That's our recipe for homeopathic love.
Our son says he's in love and we think he's deluded...
What that tells me about us should move me to tears.
We had something once but we've long since diluted
Whatever it was in martinis and beers.
And maybe I should divorce you, but we've been this way so long
I don't know what I would ever do instead,
And I wouldn't want to force you and you wouldn't go along
And we don't have all that many years ahead.
And I think we have a problem; a solution's what I crave,
And I'm thinking being solvent's not enough.
'Cuz I'd rather take the bottle that'll put me in my grave
Than another dose of homeopathic love.
And my last act is precipitate and there's no looking back
And I'm free of our homeopathic love.