TAKE IT AWAY

My hands are tied and I just can’t stand it
We gravitate religiously and I just don’t understand.

And you tell me
And you tell me
But you show me something else
And you try
God you try
But can’t change where you feel
So you take it away.

You go straight through, but I think I’m ok
My heart is heavy when you won’t go away.
You court ambivalence with wary disdain
And I think I’m in the clear but then I see your face.

Oh, you tell me
And you tell me
But you show me something else
And you try
God you try
But you can’t change where I feel
So you take it away.

Hanging in this limbo phase
Does nothing for my brain
And when you speak
I hear what you really say.

Put out your mournful hands
I’ll try to give
I’ll try to live
But certainty is fleeting
And this cycle keeps repeating
While we see each other bleeding
And your eyes keep deleting
Every word you say
Oh, as you take it away.

Oh, you tell me
And you tell me
But you show me something else
And you try
God you try
But you can’t change where you feel
No, you can’t change where I feel
So you take it away
Oh, you take it away.


Copyright Andrea McCauley 1997