you can save your ass
or
you can save your soul
but
you can't save both

heets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me as her body once did.
All five horizons revolved around her soul
As the earth to the sun
Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn

Ooh, and all I taught her was everything
Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore
And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds
Of what was everything.
Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

I take a walk outside
I'm surrounded by some kids at play
I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear?
Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head
I'm spinning, oh, I'm spinning
How quick the sun can drop away

And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass
Of what was everything?
All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

All the love gone bad turned my world to black
Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I'll be... yeah...
Uh huh... uh huh... ooh...

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,
I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky, but why
Why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine

the fear off dying without ever having knowledge
was greater than the fear off death itself
i know now that i'm alone
in the horror of this darkness

it was then that a drop of honey,
sweet enough too divert my eyes from the cruel thruth,
came into my life
she was.........................................................

you are all i'll ever want
but this i'm denied
sometimes in my darkess thoughts
i wish i never lerned
what it is to be in love

i'm gonna love you night and day
i'm gonna try in every way
i'm gonna find a place to live
give you all i got to give
come and live with me
we'll have children off our own
i will love you more than life
if you come and be my wife

there are no rules.
only what a man can do.
and what a man cannot do.

take what you can. give nothing in return.

take what you can. give nothing in return.