Wild Love

I was on her body
He was on her mind
I progressed her
He possessed her
I was there every day
He was there one day
And then went away
Well, i'm gathering these splinters to make a raft someday
She gives me so little
I'm gathering these splinters to make a raft someday and sail away
But the candle, she still burns a candle
"a light", she says, "i need a light"
And it's the only light in our room tonight
And she fills her face
With bananas and plumbs
Yoghurt and crumbs
And sexual (drums her fingers, comes, numbs?)
And the vibrated ..?..
And my dumb smile

When you're down on your luck
Aand you just can't cope
When the times are bleak
And the friends are few
Don't turn to me
'cause i'm no hope
Don't turn to me
'cause i don't know what to do

Maybe you should have a drink
I don't know why you ever stopped anyway

Oh, it's rough
Baby, to live
Oh, it's hard
Baby, to survive
Everyday lately
My mind feels like glass
Ready to be smashed
Ready to be smashed

Oh well, my best friend
Took a bullet through his eye
First he had a patch
Now he's got a glass eye
One hard, glass eye
He says sometimes he wishes
Both his eyes were glass

Well, it's rough
Baby, to live
And it's hard
Baby, to survive
Everyday lately
My mind feels like glass
Ready to be smashed
I'm ready to be smashed

At times i lock myself up
In my room
Don't come over
While i listen to a record
I stare at the cover
Don't come over
Don't come over
'cause i'm no hope to you
I'm no hope to you

Instrumental

I slept through most of april
I got up in may and had some toast
Then i bedded down again
I bedded down again
Because i was sleepy

In june
I made enough chili in my crockpot
To last `till the winter
'cause winter will be here sooner than you think
Winter will be here sooner than you think
That's when i hibernate

Oh, can you hear the bells
Can you hear the bells
Well neither can i
Neither can i
And i don't hear trumpets
When i enter a room
The fire you build for yourself
Could be so cold
Sleepy joe
Sleepy joe
Sleepy joe

You say you feel like you're dead
Oh well, i think it's just those books you read
You say you can't feel a thing
I'd like to break a chair across your back
And throw you in the ocean
Then tell me you don't feel a thing
When you slept with jenny
You said you couldn't feel a thing
Well i did
Sleepy joe
Sleepy joe
Sleepy joe
Nature abhors a vacuum
Nature abhors a vacuum
And so do you
Especially when you're trying to sleep late
Sleepy joe
Sleepy joe
Sleepy joe
Sleepy joe

Wild love
Wild love
Somebody chopped down my wild love
Wild love
Wild love
Somebody shot down my wild love

When i was seven
I asked my mother
To trip me to the bay
And put me on a ship
And lower me down
Lower me out of here

Because when i was seven
I wanted to live in a bathysphere

Between coral
Silent eel
Silver swordfish
I can't really feel or dream down here

And if the water should cut my line (*2)
Set me free
And if the water should cut my line
Set me free, i don't mind
I'll be the lost sailor, my home is the sea

When i was seven
My father said to me
'but you can't swim'
And i've never dreamed of the sea again