I'm leaving out the parts I don't like Oh, I ought to learn, to learn, I ought to learn I can't please myself every time I say bring me sunflowers and bring me a landscape of clouds and rain And let the sky give up her many, heavy hammered warnings I'll take her warning But you assumed, when I left, Mommy would wash my body back to you Back to you
How many things? How many things can I say to you? And expect shock-horror, shock-horror, shock-horror, hallelujah To descend again in sweet oblation Your God's a lion, recently fed, drowsy And the body, the body, the body, the body, the body, it waits for obliteration
Come on fire Don't leave me waiting for the world to replace me Replace me Oh, replace me
I'll tell the truth I have been sleeping with the lights on Ever since I left you Since I left you