I don't want to get to know you

Get too close to you though you may want me to

I've been watching you, they've been deceiving you

It gives you an excuse to take some abuse



No one likes to be lied to

Now you lie to me to protect yourself

Please remember the words we exchanged

How the truth changes shape under strain

And I'm stung every time, oh



I don't love you, I don't like you

I dig what you do and that's all

I don't know you, don't respect you

Don't expect too much from me or you



And if I had to choose between me and you

I'd choose me though I know that I'd lose

And be stung every time, every time



Stinger, oh oh, it's a stinger

It's a bitch

We're long spinning welter

A heart with a schism, a bond with a stitch



I don't love you, don't respect you

Don't expect too much from me or you

I don't know you, I never did

I dig who you were and that's it



If I had to choose between me and you

Though it's the last thing that I'd want to do

I won't love you, I won't love you

Stinger hold, stinger hold, stinger hold