Close Up

Don't touch my vein with your new needle

Don't be afraid of the pine beetle

Just rest assured that there will be another day too

And maybe here and maybe not

And I'm not sure of all we've got

A season ticket to the war for the human heart

So let us gather by the light

Some people have, some people might

I hold you in my mind tonight to great distraction

And tender is my sleepy bed

Night club me in my sleepy head

And eating dinner with your friends

By their cabin on the lake

And has it really been this long since we were free

I will now hold my head up high

And I will walk into the light

Erasing every trace in sight of every memory

So what's your problem, what's your beef?

I've got this gap between my teeth

And but for this I might have been a different man

And by your watch some time will pass

And buy your wine from glass to glass

And I have seen the coming of our precious Lord

We all unfold our pages from right to left

Some day I'll get a used guitar

And on its strings I'll try to play

This lonesome tune to you

We all have sinned, we all have saved

And much of this our true heart gave

We all have given to our grave our own excesses

So watch me blow in two somehow

Part Clair de Lune, part sacred cow

I am ready for my close up with the Lord