Domestication

Once again, I've been alone too long
I arrived thistle strung
Built a body from a bone you'd thrown
I was cold, I let my hair grow wild
I shook the dust from my boots
I hid my teeth beneath the honey jar

I was born a wolf in women's clothes
Shadow stained blue and grey
Tore a hole in every dress I made
Knit our limbs and trim the ivy back

You let me lie in your bed
You saw my hunger, called it tenderness

Take me gently, make me into somebody easy
Fable speak and needle stitch, oh I only want it to be easy

Call to all the low and snowless ones
Ever dark, ever quiet, never barking out loud
I'll be gone before the dawn kicks up

I have no patience left, won't tuck my tongue into my mouth

Take me gently, make me into somebody easy
Fable speak and needle stitch, oh I only want it to be easy

Oh, to be easy