I retire to bed early most nights   You follow me in or you don't   And either way, it's alright   You've been going with her now for seventeen weeks   But that doesn't make a blind bit of difference to me      Just when you're ready to take on the world   Some other girl had to get there first   And it's obvious that you're a man that's out to own her   But you know where I am   And you know that you could have both      She's away   And you get by without her very well   If I'm around   You get by without her even better      I don't kid myself about happy endings   I'm too old for that now   Out on my doorstep, your lip burst and bleeding   Well, that was a crash course for me      Acting the film star while you were still spoken for   It didn't look rosy for me   But I've considered the alternatives   A few degrees of separation can't be that bad      Just when you're ready to take on the world   Some other girl had to get there first   And it's obvious that you're a man that's out to own her   But you know where I am   And you know that you could have both   I wanted the world   But some other girl had to get there first   And it's obvious that you're a man that's out to own her   But you know where I am   So stop!      "I feel like C.C. Baxter in Wilder's 'Apartment',   That particular arrangement just came out of the blue   And who was it who sang 'I know that you love one   So why can't you love two?'   I was in full-time education when I got scared of the future   And I've only got a job so I don't disappoint my mother   It's like I've painted myself into a social corner   Well, that's what happens when you listen to   Saint Scott Walker   On headphones   On the bus.   What about us? What about us?   My friends come round and they ask me 'What about us?'   My friends come round and they ask me 'What about us?'   You know I don't kid myself about happy endings   I'm too old for all that now   But you don't have to worry that much about the future   And it's not as if you ever did before   Because you'll always have everything just as you want it   And there'll always be a phone to ring at three in the morning   And you'll always have someone who'll drive you home   Yes, you'll always have someone, someone to drive you home.   Someone to drive you home."      Just when you're ready to take on the world   Some other girl has to get there first   And it's obvious that you're a man that's out to own her   But you know where I am   And you know what I want   And I know I'll never have you completely alone   So I'm trying to draw up a contingency plan   And it's obvious that you're a man that's out to own her   But you know where I am   And you know that you could have both      You could have both   You could have both