Ounces o' Prevention Songtext
von Ike Willis

There you go again
Counting chicks before they hatch
You′re a snowball in hell
Lord, I... Lord, I aint' got time for that
Girl, you bring me to me knees
Squeeze the blood out of a stone
Money still don′t grow on trees
An' girl you done me wrong

Ounces o' Prevention/Another pound o′ cure
After singing every cliche/ I still can′t be too sure
So tired of all the plastic/every single bad cliche
Now there's drastic and there′s Drastic
But there are another ways


I'll never write a song that says:
"Baby, baby, take my hand"
All this running in the night
You have got to understand
That I′ll never ever sing you
That this feeling is so right
Or "When you look at me, baby,
All we got is tonight"

Ounces o' Prevention/Another pound o′ cure
After being with you, baby/I still can't be too sure
Ah, the misguided contact/From your Pedestal of Steel
After all you'd care to mention/This program is for real

I tell you
Maybe – you must think that I′m crazy
′Cause I don't see you anymore
I tell you "Oh no! It must be – I say so!"
′Cause I don't see you anymore

I can′t see myself singin'/Y′know this night will last forever
When you look into my eyes/I can't sing that stuff
No, never
But i know if I don't do it/Somebody prob′ly will
They′ll be Billboard with a bullet
And I eat the bitter pill


I said that
Maybe – you must think that I'm crazy
′Cause I don't see you anymore
I tell you "Oh no! It must be – I say so!"
When I don′t feel you anymore

Ounces o' Prevention/Another pound o′ cure
After being with you, baby/I still can't be too sure
Oh, the misguided contact/From your Pedestal of Steel
After all you'd care to mention/This program is for real
After all you′d care to mention/This program is for real
After all you′d care to mention/This program is for real