Keepers

<br>I have overloved you and overseen you<br><br>And now youre refusing the gifts that I bring you<br><br>My hands have been clasping my hot head and asking<br><br>&quot;if she submits to me, will she be my property? &quot;<br><br>You may be bleeding but youre not dying<br><br>Though you are dying to go<br><br>Stop teasing me<br><br>Im not seeing you leaving me<br><br><br><br>Here is a party full of my friends<br><br>And here is a cup being filled up to be drunk again<br><br>We are just starting luxurious lives<br><br>To be drunkards and diddymen<br><br>Making gulf wars and battered wives.<br><br>Now I may be pleading<br><br>But theres no love nor fear in my eyes<br><br>Just greediness<br><br>Im not seeing this sleeping dog lie.<br><br><br><br>I am the wild horses who will drag you away<br><br>I am the locked door who can make you stay<br><br>And I will act the man in almost anyway I can<br><br>So I can keep keep keep you.<br><br><br><br>So wake up you pretty thing to a wonderful home<br><br>Where we while away the happy saturdays<br><br>Between the television and the telephone<br><br>And I stroke your head just to feel what I own<br><br>Whispering<br><br>&quot;will you be my property, and not my disability? &quot;<br><br>And why are you craving<br><br>To be free from loves slavery<br><br>Stop teasing me<br><br>Loves not letting go.<br><br><br><br>I am the child calling you to come back and play<br><br>I am the concert hall in which you hear me say<br><br>Ill act a man in almost anyway I can<br><br>So I can keep keep keep you even though you may not understand<br><br>I am the bee and you are the pollen<br><br>I am the keeper you are the lion<br><br>I am the holes down which you would have fallen<br><br>If I had not been the hand who came and beckoned you<br><br><br><br>(and Im not seeing this sleeping dog lie)<br><br><br><br>Maybe<br><br>You were born wrong<br><br>But why am I picking holes in you<br><br>When its holes that we all come from? <br><br>Maybe I was born strong<br><br>To stop love from overtaking me<br><br>To stop love from living too long.<br><br>And you may be bleeding<br><br>And leading me to the blood flow<br><br>But sleep tight tonight lions<br><br>This keepers never letting go.