vendredi 27 novembre 2009

HOLD ON TO YOURSELF

(I'm so far away from you)

I'm pacing up & down my room
does Jesus only love a man who loses?

I turn on the radio--------
there's some cat on the saxophone
laying down a litany of excuses

there's madhouse longing in my baby's eyes

she rubs the lamp between her tights
& hopes the genie comes out singing

she lives in some forgotten song
& moves like she is zombie-strong



breathes steady as the pendulum---

keeps swinging
oooooooo you better hold on to yourself

well cities rust & fall to ruin

factories close & cars go cruising

in around the borders of her vision

shes says o o o o o o o o o

as Jesus make the flowers grow
all around the scene of her collision
o you know I would / I'd hold on to yourself

in the middle of the night


I try my best to chase outside
the phantoms & the ghosts & fairy-girls

on 1001 night likes these

she mutters open sesame


& Ali Baba & the forty thieves

launch her off the face of the world


o you know/on day I'll comme back/&hold on to yourself

o baby I'm a 1000 miles away


I just don't know what to say
cause Jesus only loves a man who bruises

but darling we can clearly see


it's all life & fire & lunacy
& excuses & excuses & excuses
if I could, I would/ I'd lie right down/ & hold on to yourself

one day I'll come back to you & I'll lie down & I'll hold on to yourself

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