I said you don't know the kind of care I lavished on your head/ or how many times I prayed for you & wished that you were dead/ for all the nights I passed in longing toward your crooked face/ you tarnished all my silver souls & took up all my space/ with anger.

tell me what a page of you will someday be worth/ but you cannot pay back the time I wasted on your earth/ bells ring in the harbor & the waves are never new/ my ocean's full of streetcars but I keep swimming back to you/ & your lines.

(chorus) holding off we held it in/ the world's your stage & it's no sin/ to break commandments as you please/ bring my defiance to your knees/ so take your time, your one-track mind/ get drunk on pain until you see/ that all you ever think about is anything but me.

gnawing on my bitter bones, this tree you try to shake/ your eloquent belittlement is more than I can take/ shrinking from your noonday heat, I'm drowning in your shame/ marked with fading purple fires, you stake me as your claim/ your acres. (chorus)

you said you'd take me driving for a long time very far/ if you had a license, if I only had a car/ what I think is something that you never could explain/ if I only had some courage, if you only had a brain/ we were rainbow connected looking for the mother lode/ gold plated tin stumbling down dividing yellow brick roads. (chorus)

all you ever thought about was anything but me/ all you ever think about...

Copyright (c) 2000 by Beth Kinderman. This is my original work, so please respect it.