Pity Dance

I'm leaving out the parts I don't like
Oh, I ought to learn, to learn, I ought to learn I can't please myself every time
I say bring me sunflowers and bring me a landscape of clouds and rain
And let the sky give up her many, heavy hammered warnings
I'll take her warning
But you assumed, when I left, Mommy would wash my body back to you
Back to you

How many things?
How many things can I say to you?
And expect shock-horror, shock-horror, shock-horror, hallelujah
To descend again in sweet oblation
Your God's a lion, recently fed, drowsy
And the body, the body, the body, the body, the body, it waits for obliteration

Come on fire
Don't leave me waiting for the world to replace me
Replace me
Oh, replace me

I'll tell the truth
I have been sleeping with the lights on
Ever since I left you
Since I left you