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I gave you a child and you didn't want it
That's the most that i have to give
I gave you a house and you didn't haunt it
Now where am i supposed to live?
I gave you a tree and you did not embrace it
I gave you a nightmare and you didn't chase it
I'd give you a dream and you'd only wake from it
Now I'll never go to sleep again
I'd give you a treasure and you'd only take from it
Look at the hole where jewelry had been
Baby, oh baby why must you escape from it?
This love that we once called our friend
I gave you my body and you ate aplenty
I gave you ten lives and you wasted twenty
Now I'm standing empty, hopeless, and bare
Without a morsel left of me to give
And you, you have vanished into the air
The air in which i must live
That's the most that i have to give
I gave you a house and you didn't haunt it
Now where am i supposed to live?
I gave you a nightmare and you didn't chase it
I'd give you a dream and you'd only wake from it
Now I'll never go to sleep again
Look at the hole where jewelry had been
This love that we once called our friend
I gave you ten lives and you wasted twenty
Now I'm standing empty, hopeless, and bare
Without a morsel left of me to give
And you, you have vanished into the air
The air in which i must live
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Submitted by
goldentooth On Apr 08, 2007
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One of the most heart-wrenching songs I've ever heard. Will Oldham is expressing enormous pain. Yes, it's a self-absorbed song, but pain often is. Beautiful and painful at the same time. I can feel his pain and dispair.
The third line is: "I gave you house and you didnt haunt it."
The third line is: "I gave you house and you didnt haunt it."
That was intended as a general comment rather than a reply.
That was intended as a general comment rather than a reply.
Edited the mistakes. Awesome music.... :)