Man And Wife, The Latter (Damaged Goods)

I'm growing out my hair
 like it was when I was single
 it was longer than I've known you
 I had no money then
 I had no worries then at all
 {But with} such a high standard of living
 I just feel like I am dying
 I start an argument
 but you can barely even talk
 There's good reason for your silence
 {you} have to take care of some business
 so I fix your plate
 and I stay out of the way
 But you'll stay like that forever
 right in front of your computer
 you'll look up one day
 but you won't recognize me
 So you want to change?
 read a letter from a lawyer
 want to take me out to dinner
 you want to bury me under a mound of shopping bags
 Like it'd really make a difference
 or make up for your disinterest
 I'm a bill you pay
 I'm a contract you can't break
 And it's like I'm under water
 or on an endless escalator
 I just go up and up
 but I don't ever reach the top
 And it reads just like the bible
 twenty centuries of scandal,
 yeah, it all depends on how you interpret it
 The word is love
 The word is loss
 The words are damaged goods that's what I am
 A lifetime gets chalked up to an experience
 coincidence
 we're chained to the events
 that's it