Del Amitri - Keepers lyrics
[Del Amitri - Keepers lyrics]
I have overloved you and overseen you
And now you're refusing the gifts
That I bring you
My hands have been clasping my
Hot head and asking "If she submit's to me
Will she be my property?"
You may be bleeding but you're not dying
Though you are dying to go stop teasing me
I'm not seeing you leaving me
Here is a party full of my friends
And here is a cup being filled
Up to be drunk again
We are just starting luxurious lives
To be drunkards and diddymen
Making Gulf wars and battered wives
Now I may be pleading
But there's no love nor fear in my eyes
Just greediness
I'm not seeing this sleeping dog lie
I am the wild horses who will drag you away
I am the locked door who can make you stay
And I will act the man in almost anyway I can
So I can keep keep keep you
So wake up you pretty thing
To a wonderful home
Where we while away the happy Saturdays
Between the television and the telephone
And I stroke your head just
To feel what I own whispering
"Will you be my property
And not my disability?"
And why are you craving
To be free from love's slavery
Stop teasing me love's not letting go
I am the child calling you
To come back and play
I am the concert hall in
Which you hear me say
I'll act a man in almost anyway I can
So I can keep keep keep you
Even though you may not understand
I am the bee and you are the pollen
I am the keeper you are the lion
I am the holes down which
You would have fallen
If I had not been the hand
Who came and beckoned you
(And I'm not seeing this sleeping dog lie)
Maybe you were born wrong
But why am I picking holes in you
When it's holes that we all come from?
Maybe I was born strong
To stop love from overtaking me
To stop love from living too long
And you may be bleeding
And leading me to the blood flow
But sleep tight tonight lions
This keeper's never letting go
And now you're refusing the gifts
That I bring you
My hands have been clasping my
Hot head and asking "If she submit's to me
Will she be my property?"
You may be bleeding but you're not dying
Though you are dying to go stop teasing me
I'm not seeing you leaving me
Here is a party full of my friends
And here is a cup being filled
Up to be drunk again
We are just starting luxurious lives
To be drunkards and diddymen
Making Gulf wars and battered wives
Now I may be pleading
But there's no love nor fear in my eyes
Just greediness
I'm not seeing this sleeping dog lie
I am the wild horses who will drag you away
I am the locked door who can make you stay
And I will act the man in almost anyway I can
So I can keep keep keep you
So wake up you pretty thing
To a wonderful home
Where we while away the happy Saturdays
Between the television and the telephone
And I stroke your head just
To feel what I own whispering
"Will you be my property
And not my disability?"
And why are you craving
To be free from love's slavery
Stop teasing me love's not letting go
I am the child calling you
To come back and play
I am the concert hall in
Which you hear me say
I'll act a man in almost anyway I can
So I can keep keep keep you
Even though you may not understand
I am the bee and you are the pollen
I am the keeper you are the lion
I am the holes down which
You would have fallen
If I had not been the hand
Who came and beckoned you
(And I'm not seeing this sleeping dog lie)
Maybe you were born wrong
But why am I picking holes in you
When it's holes that we all come from?
Maybe I was born strong
To stop love from overtaking me
To stop love from living too long
And you may be bleeding
And leading me to the blood flow
But sleep tight tonight lions
This keeper's never letting go