Please Don't Give Me What I Want

Oh, love, how long?

Love, how long? How long?

Oh, love, how long?

Love, how long? How long?

Oh, please don't give me what I want

And protect me from the quake to come

My dear, I know the hounds are near

Oh, I'm fickle as a pendulum

I trembled in the winter pale

Wrecked to the depths of my wickedness

And breathless, luckless, though I am

The heart of a lion inside the lamb

Won't you come for me

Across the line?

And I'll hold my heart if

Only, only, only, only

Please don't give me what I want

And forsake my basest whim

They'll come for our embrace by night

And I'm harboring my sin

Darling, you know I'm afraid of leaving

Morning's light bears the cross I stood

And I wish I was good if

Only, only, only, only I could

Won't you come for me

Across the line?

And I'll hold my heart if

Only, only, only, only