Tie Me Up! Untie Me!

I was looking at the leaves Climbing to the tops of the trees But you were nowhere to be found Just beneath all the green You were buried like a little seed Among the roots and underground I was licking at the leaves But I was in short sleeves and you And you, you were like some sickness that I caught My sweetheart moved away Swept off like garbage in the alleyway And I need more grace than I thought Oh, 'cause, brother I'm far Brother I'm far away Brother, I'm far away from everything Oh, brother I'm far Brother, I'm far away Brother, I'm far away from everything good She's like a hot cloth on a fevered head And like a needle she leads me Well, I follow like thread Tie me up, untie me All this wishing I was dead is getting old It's getting old It goes on, but it's old I was swimmin' through the waves For what must have been days But could find no relief When I started sinking down I thought for certain I would drown Until I saw you in the ocean underneath All the bright colored fish Tell of a treasure in a dull shell Such subtlety, so easily missed You, my hidden pearl of pure and perfect love And I'm a living example of 100 percent the opposite of this And if I ask the same questions Well, you say I ask the same questions Well, well maybe I repeat myself from time to time But if I ask the same questions And then I'd know I ask the same questions It's 'cause everyone who answers me is a liar She's like a hot cloth on a fevered head And like a needle she leads me Well, I follow like thread But you untied me Didn't you untie me, Lord? And now I haven't even thought about killing myself in almost five months