The Comfort Year - I Am Switzerland

Text und Musik: Sebastian Weber

(c) 2009 The Comfort Year

We talk of starting over though we know it's something we would never do
We're clinging to our twenties like you're clinging to your panties when I want you
You talk of starting over but we know the party's over
It's all downhill from here
Now you're looking pretty good for your age
While I started looking kind of like my father these days

Now I can understand that you don't want me
Because I am Switzerland and you can't count on me
I'm distant and polite, I hate to pick a fight
I'm the opposite of funny
I am Switzerland without the money

Now you don't even protest when I touch you, you just turn around and yawn
This was never passionate but all the passion that we had is gone, gone
I started growing titties and you started getting thinner
You're cold as Dana Scully and I'm bald as Walter Skinner
It's not that you reject me, we're far beyond rejection
In every window that we pass I stare at your reflection
Staring emptily back at me

Now I can understand that you don't want me
Because I am Switzerland and you can't count on me
I'm distant and polite, I hate to pick a fight
I'm the opposite of funny
I am Switzerland without the money

The money and the parties
The parties and our shallow friends
The drinks we spilled on dresses
Dresses that I bought you back when
Everything was brighter
Our days were so much lighter
Our nights were so much wilder

Our sundays and our long talks
Our long talks and our arguments
The way you used to win them
The way I used to touch your hand
Now you don't even see me
I'm jerking off to magazines
To young girls in bikinis

Now I can understand that you don't want me
Because I am Switzerland and you can't count on me
I'm distant and polite, I hate to pick a fight
I'm the opposite of funny
I am Switzerland without the money