She waits by the road She will sell me something more than just a body As she leans into my car And I know that something less than love Can spare me, Life between heartbeats
As a schoolboy I would pass her on my way Always wandering into her hospitality After being taught that every man is guilty After seeing off my last friend to the enemy As the teachers often tried to put an end to me With the counselors useless sheets of information The psychiatrist was missing medication That was passed out on the eve of graduation It was over in an hour
Now I find myself awake on trucker speed Taking taxis to motels on empty streets Life between heartbeats
When she takes me like a mother never could In a way that all my lovers never would Though they came and that was quite something to see Though they moved like avalanches falling on me Though they called out to the midnight in there sighs Seems that love is but a pet that always dies Then it lies as it lays
Now I search for truth to press against my face Be it vinyl be it latex be it lace I will not sleep until I get a taste And the healer she is fallen and unchaste For I don’t believe in sin only in passion When I finally pay this angel of compassion I will pray in the bed