The pessimist "Yes" is hanging from the collar of your dress
From when I followed it up with "I do"
And I still do I confess and it's no surprise I guess
Cause I've been repeating it the whole night through
And now the dirty hands of the pessimist "Yes"
Must tear off your dress
And pledge its love to your skin
And your mouth sigh just a simple "Yes"
And you know about tenderness
You do me good when you do me in
Oh darling how I want you
Oh darling how I need you
To help me make it through night after night after night
I don't know much about modern love
But sometimes I've witnessed it from above
Each time with a passion to climb down
I'm scared of it all I guess that's why the pessimist "Yes"
Cause signs of failure are scattered all around
But I wanna live beneath your sacred belly
I wanna push my name deep in your jelly
I wanna conquer all that's been lost
I wanna feel the kicking of your womb
I wanna hear you weeping by my tomb
I double the bargain I double the costs
Oh darling how I want you
Oh darling how I need you
To help me make it through night after night after night
You're every woman I've ever wanted
I'm all the men who ever loved you
But now you say you want someone new
But the matters of the heart cannot be counted
Let's just say I have a few
As I dream each night about you
There's a disappointment in seeing footprints in the sand
Therefore I make mine as deep as I can
Let the world know how I did you in
And I give a warning to other men I'll be spilling this refrain
About the memorised roadmap of your skin
Oh darling how I want you
Oh darling how I need you
To help me make it through night after night after night
Oh darling how I want you
Oh darling how I need you
To help me make it through night after night after night