you smile at me in total defiance of all decency

you've got it down to a science, that innocent look

you've got it practiced real good

but i know you'd kill me if you could stand the sight of blood



if i'd been a fly on the wall a little earlier

if i'd been one of the innumerable flies in this room

if i'd been a fly on the wall a little earlier

it would've been real different around here



you try to speak but the buzzing's too loud

and it's hard to make you loud through the dense black cloud

that surrounds us both, that's just as well

you call them up, let the whole house go to hell



if i'd been one of these flies

i would've lodged myself firmly underneath your eyelid

if i'd been one of these flies a little earlier

it would've been real different around here