Tie Me Up! Untie Me!

I was looking at the leaves, climbing to the tops of the trees

But you were nowhere to be found

Just beneath all the green, you were buried like a little seed

Among the roots and underground

I was licking at the leaves but I was in short sleeves

And you, you were like some sickness that I caught

And my sweetheart moved away

Swept off like garbage in the alleyway

And I need more grace than I thought

Oh, please, brother, I'm far, brother, I'm far away

Brother, I'm far away from everything

Oh, brother, I'm far, brother, I'm far away

Brother, I'm far away from everything good

She's like a hot cloth on a fevered head

And like a needle she leads me, while I follow like thread

Tie me up, untie me, all this wishing I was dead is getting old

It's gettin' old, it goes on, but it's old

I was swimming through the waves for what must have been days

But could find no relief

When I started sinking down I thought for certain I would drown

Until I saw you in the ocean

Underneath all the bright colored fish tell

Of a treasure in a dull shell

Such subtlety, so easily missed

You, my hidden pearl of pure and perfect love

And I'm the living example of 100% the opposite of this

If I ask the same questions well, yes, sir, I ask the same questions

Well, well maybe I repeat myself from time to time

But if I ask the same questions

And then I know I ask the same questions

It's because everyone who answers me is a liar

She's like the hot cloth on a fevered head

And like a needle she leads me, while I follow like thread

But you untied me, didn't you untie me, Lord?

And now I haven't even thought about killing myself

In almost five months