Once when I was all alone
I called you, and you weren't at home
My heart fell like a stone, to the ground
To the ground, to the ground
To the ground, to the ground, to the ground

Why, when morn had dawned on me
And anger grew like ecstasy
And Leda threw the swan on me and I fell to the ground
To the ground, to the ground
To the ground, to the ground, to the ground

Oh, don't say: I want you
Don't stay this way, believe me
I wasn't trying to play the game
Where someone's to blame
I'll stay the same 'til you change your mind
And you'll change your mind

I could have broken you
I should have spoken for you
You should have seen it was turning me on
Don't you know it's true?
There are worse things, perverse things I could do

Once when I was all alone
I could not find the telephone
So instead I burned your pretty home to the ground
To the ground, to the ground

Oh, don't say: I want you
Don't stay this way, believe me
I wasn't trying to play the game
Where someone's to blame
I'll stay the same 'til you change your mind
And you'll change your mind