Calico

Lend a shoulder to your lover
Sinking slow in the August heat
I am older, half my mother
Look how this time just carries me

Could you hold her, could you love her
As you did in humidity?
Since the winter, you've gone colder
Purple hands and purple feet

It's comical and bright
How your head's on right ways
She's calico inside
With her head on sideways

Undress my body before I go
Soon baby's thighs go indigo
Hold your index at my waistline
Where you were once such a careful love
We are only half our mothers
Look how this time just ruins us

It's comical and bright
How your head's on right ways
She's calico inside
With her head on sideways

Calendar lover, you tire so quick
If you'd say it out loud, well, I could loosen my fist
But I'm only a sweetheart when you see it fit
I'll say it

You're comical and bright
With your head on right ways
I'm calico inside
With my head on sideways