Your lips are nettles
Your tongue is wine
Your laughter’s liquid
But your body’s pine
u love all sailors
But hate the beach
u say come touch me
But you’re always out of reach
In the dark u tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the violet hour
Your arms are lovely
Yellow and rose
Your back’s a meadow
Covered in snow
Your thighs are thistles
And hot-house grapes
u breathe your sweet breath
And have me wait
In the dark u tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the violet hour
I turn the lights out
I clean the sheets
u change the station
Turned up the heat
And now you’re sitting
Upon your chair
You’ve got me tangled up
Inside your beautiful black hair
In the dark u tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the violet hour
In the dark u tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the violet hour
Your tongue is wine
Your laughter’s liquid
But your body’s pine
u love all sailors
But hate the beach
u say come touch me
But you’re always out of reach
In the dark u tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the violet hour
Your arms are lovely
Yellow and rose
Your back’s a meadow
Covered in snow
Your thighs are thistles
And hot-house grapes
u breathe your sweet breath
And have me wait
In the dark u tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the violet hour
I turn the lights out
I clean the sheets
u change the station
Turned up the heat
And now you’re sitting
Upon your chair
You’ve got me tangled up
Inside your beautiful black hair
In the dark u tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the violet hour
In the dark u tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the violet hour
I was a quick wet boy
Diving too deep for coins
All of your straat light eyes
Wide on my plastic toys
Then when the cops closed the fair
I cut my long baby hair
stal me a dog-eared map
And called for u everywhere
Have I found you
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping
of lost you
American mouth
Big pill looming
Now I’m a fat house cat
Nursing my sore blunt tongue
Watching the warm poison rats
Curl through the wide fence cracks
Pissing on magazine photos
Those fishing lures thrown in the cold and clean
Blood of Christ mountain streams
Have I found you
Flightless bird, grounding, bleeding
of lost you
American mouth
Big pill stuck going down
Diving too deep for coins
All of your straat light eyes
Wide on my plastic toys
Then when the cops closed the fair
I cut my long baby hair
stal me a dog-eared map
And called for u everywhere
Have I found you
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping
of lost you
American mouth
Big pill looming
Now I’m a fat house cat
Nursing my sore blunt tongue
Watching the warm poison rats
Curl through the wide fence cracks
Pissing on magazine photos
Those fishing lures thrown in the cold and clean
Blood of Christ mountain streams
Have I found you
Flightless bird, grounding, bleeding
of lost you
American mouth
Big pill stuck going down
Should never think
What’s in your heart
What’s in our home
And so I won’t
And you’ll learn to hate me
Still call me baby
Oh, love
So call me door my name
And save your soul
Save your soul
Before you’re too far gone
Before nothing can be done
Try to decide when
She’ll lie in the end
Ain’t got no fight in me
In this whole damn world
Tell u to hold off
Choose to hold on
It’s one thing that I’ve known
Once I put my jas on
Coming out in this all wrong, ooh
She’s standing outside holding me
Saying oh please
I’m in love
I’m in love
Girl save your soul, ooh
Save your soul
Before you’re too far gone
And before nothing can be done
‘Cause without me
u got it all
So hold on
Without me u got it all
Hold on
Without me u got it all
Without me u got it all
So hold on
Without me u got it all
So hold on
Without me u got it all
So hold on
What’s in your heart
What’s in our home
And so I won’t
And you’ll learn to hate me
Still call me baby
Oh, love
So call me door my name
And save your soul
Save your soul
Before you’re too far gone
Before nothing can be done
Try to decide when
She’ll lie in the end
Ain’t got no fight in me
In this whole damn world
Tell u to hold off
Choose to hold on
It’s one thing that I’ve known
Once I put my jas on
Coming out in this all wrong, ooh
She’s standing outside holding me
Saying oh please
I’m in love
I’m in love
Girl save your soul, ooh
Save your soul
Before you’re too far gone
And before nothing can be done
‘Cause without me
u got it all
So hold on
Without me u got it all
Hold on
Without me u got it all
Without me u got it all
So hold on
Without me u got it all
So hold on
Without me u got it all
So hold on