Bad Cover Version

Pulp · We Love Life [2001]

The word's on the street you've found someone new

If he looks nothing like me I'm so happy for you

I heard an old girlfriend has turned to the church

She's trying to replace me but it'll never work



'Cos every touch reminds you of

Just how sweet it could have been

And every time he kisses you

It leaves behind the bitter taste of saccharine



A bad cover version of love is not the real thing

Bikini clad girl on the front who invited you in

Such great disappointment when you got him home

The original was so good the one you no longer own



And every touch reminds you of

Just how sweet it could have been

And every time he kisses you

You get the taste of saccharine



It's not easy to forget me

It's so hard to disconnect

When it's electronically reprocessed

To give a more life-like effect, oh come on



Aah, sing your song about all the sad imitations that got it so wrong



It's like a later 'Tom And Jerry' when the two of them could talk

Like the Stones since the eighties, like the 'Last Days Of Southfork'

Like 'Planet Of The Apes' on TV

The second side of Til The Band Comes In'

Like an own-brand box of cornflakes, he's going to let you down my friend