Eat For Two Lyrics

Eat For Two

[ music: Natalie Merchant/words: Natalie Merchant ]

O, Baby blankets and baby shoes, baby slippers, baby spoons, walls of baby
blue. 
Dream child in my head is a nightmare born in a borrowed bed. 
Now I know lightning strikes again. 
It struck me once, then struck me dead. 
My folly grows inside of me. 
I eat for two, walk for two, breathe for two now. 

Well, the egg man fell down off his shelf. 
All the good king`s men with all their help struggled `til the end for a shell
they couldn`t mend. 
You know where this will lead, to hush and rock in the nursery for the kicking
one inside of me. 
I eat for two, walk for two, breathe for two now. 

When the boy was a boy, the girl was a girl, they found each other in a wicked
world. 
Strong in some respects, but she couldn`t stand for the way he begged and gave
in. 
Pride is for men; young girls should run and hide instead. 
Risk the game by taking dares with "yes". 
Eat for two, walk for two, breathe for two now. 

Walk for two? I`m stumbling. 
Breathe for two? I can`t breathe. 
Five months , how it grows. 
Five months now, I begin to show.