Just a Little Bite

Lyrics

[Intro]
(a wine glass set down slowly)
Just a taste. That's all.

[Verse 1]
She came dressed as the classic one, the cape and the collar high,
the little bit of red at the corner of the eye,
and she said "I'm not hungry, I'm just here to see the room" —
which is what they always say, and it is never, ever true.
"Just a little bite," she said. "Just a little. Just a taste."
And there's three ways to hear that and not one of them is chaste.

[Chorus]
Just a little bite — a mouthful, nothing more.
Just a little bite — I've had a bigger bite before.
Just a little something, just enough to take the edge,
just a little bite, she says, and never says of what.
Just a little bite. Just a little bite.
Nobody in this room is going home tonight.

[Verse 2]
'Cause a bite is what you take out of a sandwich or a cake,
and a bite is what a creature with a certain hunger makes,
and a bite is what you'd call it if you didn't want to name
the third thing, which is obvious, and gets you there the same.
Three meanings and a mouthful and a mouth that isn't full —
the oldest joke in autumn and it never has grown old.

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
Now the thing about the vampire, and the reason that she lasts,
is she never says she's hungry and she never asks for much.
Just a little. Just a taste. Just the smallest sip.
That's the trick of it, the tiny ask, the almost-nothing grip.
Nobody says no to "just a little." Nobody ever has.
That's not a monster, honey. That's a business plan.

[Chorus]

[Outro]
(glass empty, set down)
Just a little bite.
...Well. That was the whole glass.
Was it?