Exhibit A We are friends in a sleeping bag Splitting the heat We have one filthy pillow to share And your lips are in my hair Someone upstairs has a rat that we laughed at And people are drinking and singing That Scarborough Fair on a ukulele tear Exhibit B Oh, we found an apartment It's not much to look at A futon on a floor Torn off desktop for a door All the decors made of milk crates And duct tape, and if we have sex They can hear us through the floor But we don't do that anymore And I lay there wondering what is the matter Is this some matter of worse or of better? You took the blanket, so I took the bed sheet But I would have held you if you'd only let me Exhibit C Look how quaint and how quiet and private Our paychecks have bought us a condo in town It's the nicest flat around You picked a mattress and had it delivered And I walked upstairs And the sight of it made my heart pound And I wrapped my arms around me And I stood there wondering what is the matter Is this some matter of worse or of better? You walked right past me and straightened the covers And I would still love you if you wanted a lover And you said All the money in the world Won't buy a bed so big and wide To guarantee that you won't accidentally Touch me in the night Exhibit D Now we're both mostly paralyzed Don't know how long We've been lying here in fear Too afraid to even feel I find my glasses, and you turn the light out Roll off on your side Like you've rolled away for years Holding back those king-sized tears And I still don't ask you what is the matter Is it a matter of worse or of better? You take the heart-failure, I'll take the cancer I've long stopped wondering why you don't answer Exhibit E You can certainly see How fulfilling a life from the cost And size of stone Of our final resting home We got some nice ones right under a cherry tree You and me lying the only way we know Side by side and still and cold And I finally ask you what was the matter Was it some matter of worse or of better? You stretch your arms out and finally face me And said: I would have told you if you'd only asked me If you'd only asked me If you'd only asked me