Your Body Above Me

How come you never look at me no more? take it easy, babe. go slow now. how come you never touch me anymore? take it easy, you don't want to know now. how come you never break the skin no more?
It easy, babe. don't go now. how come you never let me in no more? take it from me, i'll break it to you slow now. she looks through me like an x-ray. like a fire burning out of the fireplace. s
Oks through me like x-ray. i'm saying all the right lies to the wrong face. how many faces can you fake, boy? how many lies? how many know now? say how can you never make a choice? i'll break it
Ou slow, now. she looks through me like an x-ray. like a fire burning out of the fireplace. she looks through me like an x-ray. like a surgeon come tearing at my heartbreak. don't be seen with m
E sees everything. she looks through me like an x-ray.

Is there something you'd like to do tonight? i got some bridges to burn. i'd like to fly away tonight for whatever it's worth. keep the salt out of my eyes can you keep the heat in the air? mayb
Making the whole thing up. maybe you're not even there. i called your machine just to hear your voice. i know you were listening when all i could hear was noise. and all the demons around my be
L your name like they want you dead. but i can't keep the rain from getting in. one more night. i set fire to the car tonight to keep from running away. i needed something loud and bright to kee
Memory at bay. sometimes i shout a lot. there's things i know how to say. sometimes i get scared i just get carried away. i called your machine just to hear your voice. but i can't keep the rai
M getting in. one more night. well i call your name just to hear the sound hang in the air as i walk around but i can't keep the rain from getting in. one more night.

You get me high one last time. one more second to let you save my life. 'cause i don't need it anymore. but o my darling, here we go. you get me high in that long white summer dress. take it off
Ide in the long green grass and i don't need it anymore. but it feels so good, o my lord. we talk about it. we take the long way 'round. come on angel. there's only one way out. one way. you can
It easy. just walk away now baby. one way. make it easy on me. just walk away now, please. are you a siren? you call me out. you make it hard on me. it's hard to turn you down. but i don't need
Nymore. so keep your distance, o my lord. we talk about it. there's only one way out.

It could have been anyone could have been a woman or a man. must have swept her away made her forget who i am. it could have been anyone could have slipped me a drug. must have been a permanent
To make me forget who she was. it could have been anything could have been the time we spent alone. maybe too much time together maybe too close to the bone. it could have been anything any word
Ght have said. just a look i might have given just the angle of my head (i forget). but we come we go. we say that we know. but we don't remember and we don't remind each other. we come we go. w
That we know. but we don't remember. no we don't recognize each other. it could have been anyone any rumor passed around. someone made her doubt me made her head for higher ground. it could hav
N any gesture or word. maybe something i misstated something she misunderstood (i would). we come we go. but we don't remember. and we don't recognize that maybe this time things might work out
. maybe this time she might c
Atch my eye. maybe something anything could strike me blind and i might remember her and she might remember me this time. it could have been anyone anything the ring around her finger. it could
Been anything any piece that's shattered on the way. it could have been anything anyone she'll take another lover. it could have been anything anything anything anything. we come we go. but we d
Rememeber. and we don't recognize each other.

Wash it in the sea let it soak all night. wash it in the sea let the saltwater wash it away. soak it in bleach till it's white on white. soak it in bleach till the blood just washes away. hang i
The wind let it blow all night. hang it up high let the high wind blow it away. hang it in the wind let the sun burn bright. hang it in the wind till the blood just washes away. i have waited wa
Years for the child that's come and gone today. say what about this wasted fear. how can i just turn and wash it away. if i can then i will wash it away. if she can then she will wash it away. f
Years spent one by one. forty years of life just slipping away. what i'd give for a firstborn son. forty years of blood just washing away. i have waited wasted lives. i have waited long enough i
Y. say what about this wasted child. how can i just turn and wash it away. if i can then i will wash it away. if she can then she will wash it away. send me an angel. send me the ghost that i wa
At i am. i will wash it away.
She will wash it away.

Switch the children watch the women scream. listen to the big machine. let's have a party, let's get some fireworks. let's see how long we forget how the game goes. marigolds gone to soldiers go
Seed. listen to the big machine. all the money. all the money in the world. all the money. all the money can't burn your big machine. we wave our hands in bright white shades. we wave our flags
Billy clubs & spades. help us now this is our hour of need. listen to the big machine. all the money. all the money can't burn your big machine.