I'll Be Yours

Pleased to meet you, mister You said softly after he caught your eye You took a sip, the corners of your lips Turned up upon his reply And sometime on that evening He took your hand and led you from the floor Was it pleasure, was it grieving That bound me, rapt and seething, by your door Your hearts beat boldly, like mission bells My head was exploding, alone with the kiss and tell You sing me to sleep at night, wake me with a sharp bite Every morning You cry, Our love hasn't been squandered, hold on a little longer And I'll be yours Read to me your stories And I'll follow along with open eyes Their faces and their names and the places where they've been I'll recognize And I will stand beside them I will learn the things they've come to know They're just as you described them You and I can never be alone I watched your tongue slip across your lips I had my heart set, I had no control of it It was all in a moment Your body unburdened Later on, you would turn to me and say Would you come sit near me You sing me to sleep at night, wake me with a sharp bite Every morning Crying, Our love hasn't been squandered, hold on a little longer And I'll be yours Waiting on another lonely evening for you I just can't be still The crickets chirp, the walls stir There's no part of me not aching for a thrill I could spend a lifetime of empty hours Gazing at the wall If it could be like old times We wouldn't have to go nowhere at all It felt like all evening I held your body breathing So that I was still wide awake When you said, I must be leaving You sing me to sleep at night, wake me with a sharp bite Every morning You cry, Our love hasn't been squandered, hold on a little longer And I'll be yours It's the only tune I'm humming If it's long in coming, I don't mind You ask me how am I doing Everything is ruined, and I say, Fine You ask me how am I doing Ask me like I'm stupid, and I say, Fine