Once when I was all alone I called you, and you weren't at home My heart fell like a stone, to the ground To the ground, to the ground To the ground, to the ground, to the ground Why, when morn had dawned on me And anger grew like ecstasy And Leda threw the swan on me and I fell to the ground To the ground, to the ground To the ground, to the ground, to the ground Oh, don't say: I want you Don't stay this way, believe me I wasn't trying to play the game Where someone's to blame I'll stay the same 'til you change your mind And you'll change your mind I could have broken you I should have spoken for you You should have seen it was turning me on Don't you know it's true? There are worse things, perverse things I could do Once when I was all alone I could not find the telephone So instead I burned your pretty home to the ground To the ground, to the ground Oh, don't say: I want you Don't stay this way, believe me I wasn't trying to play the game Where someone's to blame I'll stay the same 'til you change your mind And you'll change your mind