He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
I'm wide open
But don't I please you anymore?
You're slipping away from me
You're drifting away from me
I'm wide open
But don't I please you anymore?
You're slipping away from me
You're slipping away from me
Slow me down
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
Slow me down
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
I'm wide open
But I couldn't see it anymore
You're drifting away from me
You're slipping away from me
I'm wide open
I'm wide open
I'm wide open
One day just gonna see me
Look back and forth from the ceiling
(I'm wide open) some day love's gonna hurt me
Turn back and soon I'll believe it
Slow me down
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
Slow me down
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
I'm wide open
I'm wide open
Slow me down
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
But don't I please you anymore?
You're slipping away from me
You're drifting away from me
I'm wide open
But don't I please you anymore?
You're slipping away from me
You're slipping away from me
Slow me down
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
Slow me down
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
I'm wide open
But I couldn't see it anymore
You're drifting away from me
You're slipping away from me
I'm wide open
I'm wide open
I'm wide open
One day just gonna see me
Look back and forth from the ceiling
(I'm wide open) some day love's gonna hurt me
Turn back and soon I'll believe it
Slow me down
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
Slow me down
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
I'm wide open
I'm wide open
Slow me down
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
It's getting away from me
Lyrics submitted by indstrlgal
Wide Open Lyrics as written by Edmund John Simons Beck Hansen
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