VERSE 1:
more uncertain than i thought
afraid to sell the thing i bought
it's such a lovely little cage
i've come to ask the price i paid

CHORUS:
you know
i don't like the way the story goes
i don't like the way the story ends

VERSE 2:
so i do not hate the apple
that has fallen from your mouth
just the taste of your kiss after
and the stain you can't get out

CHORUS:
you know
i don't like the way the story goes
i don't like the way the story ends

BRIDGE:
no one would watch this film
where redemption never comes
and the garden is lost to the darkness
and the lover dies unloved

all the hatches were battened
i don't know, i don't know what happened
so i cried out to the captain
forgetting i'd thrown him to the sea

CHORUS:
oh, i don't like the way the story went
and i wonder will it ever end