Please Don't Give Me What I Want

(Oh love, how long?

Love how long?

How long?)

Oh please don’t give me what I want

and protect me from the quake to come

My dear, I know the hounds are near

Oh, I’m fickle as a pendulum

I trembled in the winter pale

wrecked to the depths of my wickedness

And breathless, luckless though I am

The heart of a lion inside the lamb

Won’t you come for me?

Across the line

And I’ll hold my heart

If only only only only

Please don’t give me what I want

and forsake my basest whim

They’ll come for our embrace by night

And I’m harbouring my sin

Darling you know I’m afraid of leaving

Morning’s light bears the cross I stood

and I wish I was good

if only only only only I could

Won’t you come for me?

Across the line

And I’ll hold my heart

If only only only only