it's too simple to have me on my knees
it's been six years, i just get easier to please
or was that harder, dear?
explains why i'm down here

but that's only a wishful turn of phrase
i know where i'm not, but you're on your way
or asleep on five star sheets
my companion constellations are bittersweet

i haven't said, only quietly
all the reasons you mean so much to me
you threw a match on my nest of feathered ash
my heart crawled back to my waiting ribs for that
i never thought i'd make it, here's a body at your call
please take it
cuz' i wouldn't be here otherwise
if i didn't slowly scald inside

before the night is through
we'll see if i can make it to
the ecstacy, my secret high
or i die of loving you

don't make me explain things were awful before
i'll drag myself around the universe on all fours
rock and roll my life away
who needs to sleep with the thngs you say

my heart is beating and that's enough, you know it's tough
but i'm only breathing for this kind of stuff
tonight i'll dream of helping you get ready for bed
turning on the radio and giving you... oh god no i'd be instantly dead

i can think about it all i want
not even there in spirit but somehow you haunt
any empty ventricles between my lungs you find
i can't decide whether or not i mind
i never thought i'd make it, here's a body at your call
please take it
cuz' i wouldn't be here otherwise
here's to that shifting in your skin, unearthly opal eyes

before the night is through
we'll see if i can make it to
the ecstacy, my secret high
or i die of loving you
i'm almost tired of loving you