Beaten half senseless with the blunt edge
Of a dozen sleepless nights
An hour can seem endless
When you're wondering who your lover's with tonight
It was much too complicated
To be reduced to simple terms of black and white
So tangled up in jealous love
When I talk to you I can't even be polite
Shot down in flames
Shot down
Wondering who to blame
I recall when I first met you
I was much too self-contained to get involved
I already had my hands full
With another situation unresolved
You said my kind of love was heartless
Without possessiveness there's just no love at all
And I took you at your word
And the feeling you belong to me evolved
Shot down in flames…
No sooner had I pledged myself
Than you began to make your distance clear
The depth of your affection
Began to look kind of like a thin veneer
You made your move I called your bluff
We sure knew how to create an atmosphere
We cut each other pretty deep
Though neither one would ever shed a tear
Shot down in flames…
I was paying off your bodyguard
With borrowed time and them my right to choose
Handcuffed to your treadmill
With my head on fire and gravel in my shoes
Till I fell wired out and helpless
On your backdoor step with no strength to refuse
I heard you whisper to your houseboy
This kind of thing is nothing I can use
Now you keep my picture in a frame
To remind you of a past we never had
Don't send me no more letters please
The things you tell me only make me sad
Shot down in flames
Shot down
Wondering who to blame