Tie Me Up! Untie Me! - Live

[Verse 1]

I was looking at the leaves

Climbing to the tops of the trees

You were nowhere to be found

Just beneath all the green

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

My sweetheart moved away

Swept off like garbage in the alleyway

I need more grace than I thought

[Bridge]

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

[Chorus]

She was like a hot cloth on a fevered head

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

Tie me up! Untie me!

All this wishing I was dead was getting old

It was getting old, it went on, it's old

[Verse 2]

I was swimming through the waves

Oh, it must have been days

And I could find no relief

I started sinking down

Well I thought for certain I would drown

But I saw you in the ocean underneath

All the bright colored fish tell

Of a treasure in a dull shell

It's a subtlety, very easily missed

You, my hidden pearl of pure and perfect love

And I'm the living example of one hundred percent the opposite of this

If I ask the same questions

You say I ask the same questions

Maybe I repeat myself from time to time

If I ask the same questions

And I know I ask the same questions

It's because everyone who answers me is a liar

[Chorus]

She was a hot cloth on a fevered head

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

But you untied me

Didn't you untie me, Lord?

I haven't even thought about killing myself

In a long time