Your walk was so destructive In that little cotton dress Your smile was so seductive Like a breeze in the summer's stillness When the heat became too much Your eyes became a lake I jumped in But now I'm sorry Wasn't it a beautiful mistake I had gotten lonely As people sometimes do Grabbled my gun and went out hunting Only not necessarily for you My heart had scrapped along the ground so many times That I thought it was a rake You picked it up But now I'm sorry Wasn't it a beautiful mistake What if you get hungry And it's way past midnight? I know an all-night diner With a broken neon light And if hunger is mocking you If it is more than you could take Go on and take a bite And then be sorry It'll be a beautiful mistake We'll make a million journeys Before we turn to dust There is no crime if we should go From lust to disgust We're been doing it so perfectly Since we were tempted by a snake We give in and then we're sorry Isn't it a beautiful mistake