Untie (Lyrics without music)

(The thought process of a chronic...hmmm...home-wrecker? Knot-untier, anyway.  
I know because I used to do this. Regularly. Why no one ever shot me in my youth is mysterious to me. 
No complaints about not being murdered; just marveling at the luck. It's karma, though, 
that I should be where I am now. And it's Russian of me that I should laugh at the Karma 
I see another wracking up. One day I'll be kinder. Or so I keep telling myself.)

Tell her what she needs to hear

What she needs to hear

Listen when she talks and you’ll hear

What she needs to hear

Do they all say he’s bad, and it hurts her?

Tell her it’s not his fault or hers

Do they say he needs sympathy from her?

Tell her he’s bad for her

She’ll think you her shining knight

And you can tell yourself your plot

Was all good and right

When you‘ve untied their knot

Let her know the last one hurt you

Let her see the vulnerability in you

Let her see the strength she gives you

And watch you become a stronger you

Tell her how special you find her

Tell her how magical you find her

Tell her how much you treasure

All the stolen time with her

She’ll think you her shining knight

And you can tell yourself your plot

Was all good and right

When you‘ve untied their knot

Never tell her to leave him

Or suggest she doesn’t need him

Or hint she’d be better without him

Just be more fun than him

When she thinks about all the work

To fix what she has with that jerk

Compared to your entertaining quirks

She won’t think it worth the work

She’ll think you her shining knight

And you can tell yourself your plot

Was all good and right

When you've untied their knot

That they would have ended anyway

That it was going that way all along

That it doesn’t matter what he has to say

That you didn’t do anything wrong

You’ve got to let her think

It was her idea

You always let her think

It was her idea

After you’ve won her

You can never let up

On the praising of her

Or you might slip up

Show the sad little flaw

You know is in you

And you know if she saw

She wouldn’t be with you

Because somewhere in your mind

You know that you untied those two

Because you were too scared to find

Someone unattached and new

Because you know you can’t impress

Someone who’s heart is whole

And not in distress

Because you my friend are a hole

Tell me how it feels when it dawns on you

That you started when she was with another

And that it could just as easily happen to you

When, bored with you,

she starts talking to

another…