Clung to the sweater from the day you were born Never knew better, that's what you swore Mother heard you cause the walls were thin In saturnine, sweetness, and horatio fin
No boy could spell you out In the grass at night Beneath the stars
You grew right past the streets where you were raised Sneakin' out early to a secret place Like a hole in the wall Like a hole in the wall
Into the bed you hang your sling To watch your man as he seeks relief You cut out his heart and watch him die So we can know you, and that you're alive As the hole in the wall You are the hole in the wall
No one can know your song In kisses and noise Now you belong to them all
Awake to the dawn and scratch your eyes Light the prayer candles that you remind to Send you a boy that you could waste A little piece of heaven to set you straight Through the hole in the wall You are the hole in the wall
No one could tell you why the tape's full of hiss and sons that cry
to the night of the dead and the wishing ghost beating on you to drain morose through the hole in the wall we are the holes in the wall we are the