Del Amitri - Keepers Lyrics
I have overloved you and overseen youAnd now youre refusing the gifts that I bring youMy hands have been clasping my hot head and askingIf she submits to me, will she be my property?You may be bleeding but youre not dyingThough you are dying to goStop teasing meIm not seeing you leaving meHere is a party full of my friendsAnd here is a cup being filled up to be drunk againWe are just starting luxurious livesTo be drunkards and diddymenMaking gulf wars and battered wives.Now I may be pleadingBut theres no love nor fear in my eyesJust greedinessIm not seeing this sleeping dog lie.I am the wild horses who will drag you awayI am the locked door who can make you stayAnd I will act the man in almost anyway I canSo I can keep keep keep you.So wake up you pretty thing to a wonderful homeWhere we while away the happy saturdaysBetween the television and the telephoneAnd I stroke your head just to feel what I ownWhisperingWill you be my property, and not my disability?And why are you cravingTo be free from loves slaveryStop teasing meLoves not letting go.I am the child calling you to come back and playI am the concert hall in which you hear me sayIll act a man in almost anyway I canSo I can keep keep keep you even though you may not understandI am the bee and you are the pollenI am the keeper you are the lionI am the holes down which you would have fallenIf I had not been the hand who came and beckoned you(and Im not seeing this sleeping dog lie)MaybeYou were born wrongBut why am I picking holes in youWhen its holes that we all come from?Maybe I was born strongTo stop love from overtaking meTo stop love from living too long.And you may be bleedingAnd leading me to the blood flowBut sleep tight tonight lionsThis keepers never letting go.
