Joey&Chandler

Motor Mouth

How can I forget the conversation
Such a fresh display of imagination
Let it run away with my lips
I nearly tripped
Time to abandon ship

Oh my god.

Oh my giddy god.

Of all the things I had ever done; both stupid, and ridiculously unwise, nothing could top the moment that I once again let the words leave my mouth quicker then a diva leaving in her limousine.

Of all the things I had ever done; letting it slip to Rachel that Ross loved her being one of the big ones (although it did turn out well in the end) this was the biggest.

Because I knew that it was ridiculous. I had known that even before I had said it. It had sounded ridiculous in my head, the main reason why I had never spoken it.

Not many things sounded ridiculous in my head -only sounding that way once I spoke them - so I knew that when they sounded that way before they reached my lips, there was something wrong.

Which is why I never said it, until as usual; it left my mouth with the greatest of ease, just like all slips had left my mouth in the past.

And you; you just looked at me with the blankest of expressions, making me realise that my brain had been right. It was ridiculous.

I shouldn't be allowed to talk to anyone. I shouldn't be allowed to be left in a room with anybody, my mouth unhinged as it was. It was just a disaster waiting to happen.

I really had to learn to control myself.

How can I forget your blank expression
Something like a priest at his first confession
Trying to appear unsurprised
I should have surmised
It was time I should say goodnight

You don't know the half of it

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

How could I have let myself be so stupid?

How could I have let myself say it?

Let the cat out of the bag?

Put my gigantic foot into my even bigger mouth?

How, in all that it true and holy, could I have let my lips run away from me?

There were reasons why the term 'smacking your head against a brick wall' was invented - for times like this. For telling your friend your darkest secret in what would possibly be the most nonchalant voice I had ever adopted in my life, followed by the most shocked look I had ever adopted -never once expecting to hear my words out in the open like that.

Followed by your look; a look that didn't really seem that odd on your face.

You always looked blank when you didn't understand something, and this was a big one that you couldn't comprehend. I knew that, because it had taken me forever to comprehend it myself, and when I had, I had vowed to myself to keep it a secret, because it was much better unspoken; less complicated.

But then, my subconscious had always secretly vouched for the more complicated situations.

Some secrets are better left unspoken
Some promises better kept unbroken
Too often my mouth is found wide open
Full of regret

I was bad; no not bad, that didn't seem right.

I was wicked. Close, but no cigar.

I was naughty. Yeah, that was the money line, worked much better then the other two words; sounds much more demeaning.

I was naughty and I deserved a spanking, to make up for the ones I never received when I was a child...although both my mother and father seemed to receive twice as many to make up for my lack of.