I don’t want to know what you wanted to say when he asked you to dinner and then to ballet
You say you’re involved but the world just rev-olves ar-ound you
Wh-y won’t you, why won’t you, stay
Maybe you wanted him to come inside
Well it must have been just one hell of a ride in the back of a jeep and it all just seems so, cheap to me
Wh-y won’t you, why won’t you, stay
~Chorus~
Oh, but to be closer to you
Oh you’d better, you’d better you’d better you’d better better believe and do you
Have some else you’d rather have if he were, closer to you
You’ve never been coy
You’ve never been coy
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Mmm-mmm mmm
Tell me about the boy
Tell me about the boy
The minute you spin that tricky little tale and it ties you up and it leave a trail and I follow just to swallow the bitterness, for the sake of it
Wh-y won’t you, why won’t you, say what you mean
Did you get the message, did you get the call
Throwing rocks at your window from your front yard
And the pane breaks inward and it, shatters over y-ou
~Chorus~
I know
Tell me about the boy
Do you want to be lonely, do you want to be free
Is it going to be him is it going to be me
You a-lways have to play the victim yeah yeah oh no no
Why won’t you, play along
Hours on the phone just telling me how, everything’s running away from you now
Heaven help you if you have to choose
Oh no no no no
Why won’t you, play along
