Recitation w/ N.L. (Live In London)

You came to me this morning and you handled me like meat

You'd have to be a man to know how good that feels, how sweet

My mirrored twin, my next of kin, I'd know you in my sleep

And who but you would take me in a thousand kisses deep?

I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat

You see I'm just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet

Who loved you with his frozen love and his second hand physique

With all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep

I know ya had to lie to me, I know ya had to cheat

To pose all hot and high behind the veils of shear deceit

A perfect porn aristocrat so elegant and cheap

I'm old but I'm still into that, a thousand kisses deep

I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze

Been working out but it's too late, it's been too late for years

But you look good, you really do, they love you on the street

If you were here, I'd kneel for you, a thousand kisses deep

The autumn moved across your skin, got something in my eye

A light that doesn't need to live and doesn't need to die

A riddle in the book of love, obscure and obsolete

Till witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

And I'm still workin' with the wine, still dancing cheek to cheek

The band is playing Auld Lang Syne, but the heart will not retreat

I ran with Diz' and I sang with Ray, I never had their sweep

But once or twice they let me play a thousand kisses deep

I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat

And see I'm just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet

Who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique

With all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep

But you don't need to hear me now

And every word I speak

It counts against me anyhow

A thousand kisses deep