I
Can
take this all, I can take all this from you
Just to spit in your eye,
just to laugh at your fears
I can take this all,
I can take all this from you
Just to spit in your eye,
just to laugh at your fears
I can take this all,
I can take all this from you
And you'll hear as a child
you played with the devil
Almost burned the house down
with your smoke and your candle
The clue was in the fallen down from
which you could no longer hide
The clue is in those tears,
the stumble and those tears
I can take this all,
I can take all this from you
Just to keep you alive,
just to lighten your fears
I can take this all,
I can take all this from you
Just to keep you alive,
just to lighten your fears
I can take this all,
I can take all this from you
And I stake my claim on forty
years of prayer
And I stake my claim on forty
years of curses
And all those years you left me bewildered
But I am feeling very mortal
right now
And feathers are falling left,
right and centre
Feathers are falling left, right and centre
Please say goodbye to those
you hold dear
For that frivolity and fun
can no longer deliver
Please say goodbye to those
you hold dear
For that frivolity and fun
can no longer deliver
And I could take this all,
I could take knowledge from you
And remember I have a tender side
A side that cannot be
But surrounded man from those songs
But sometimes he is real and sometimes he's
not the lucky one to be around
Remember I have a tender side,
a side that cannot be fucked around
And the gal from those songs,
well sometimes she was real
Sometimes she was the
lucky one to be around
Please say goodbye to those
you hold dear
For the frivolity and fun
can no longer deliver
Please say goodbye to
those you hold dear
For the frivolity and fun
can no longer deliver
And I can take this all,
I can take all this from you
One fun morning we turned up at his heads
with a slight turn off a well -worn path
We drove to it like sailors just losing our way in
the mess and the noise of a landlocked world
And as we walked through it all, spying a young sparrow hawk,
slowing and gaining just words in progress
I watched the tops of the trees as they shed
and tickled the airspace high above our heads
In a few drops of rain and you opened and closed your tiny eye
s as though I am to blame or could muster an answer
Believe it or not,
I fear I will miss this when you're past
Young enough to carry the clamp
of the legs and the bury of the head
A long forgotten
And the clamp of the legs
and the bury of the head
A long forgotten
And please say goodbye
to those you hold dear
For the frugalty and fun
can no longer deliver
But I can take us all,
I can take all this money
Just to spin your eye,
just to laugh at your fears
I can take us all,
I can take all this money
Just to keep you alive,
just to laugh at your fears
I could take my soul,
I could take all this body
Just to live your life,
just to laugh at your fear