Vengeance Is Sleeping

I didn't know what a brute I was

I dipped my cigarette and rode the bus

Vengeance built me hastily

And I dragged the clanging notion I was nobody, nobody

Nobody

All I had was my invention

And my love invented all of you

Oh, look what thoughts can do

What thoughts can do

If you're not, by now, dead and buried

You're most certifiably married, oh, married

I'm sure you're sleeping sound

With the mistress of the hours

The hours that grind your life to dust

Your easy loves you keep like pets

Denied them, you are powerless

Whatever keeps you sleeping through the night

I'm not the man you thought I was

My love has never lived indoors

I've had to drag it home by force

Hired hounds at both my wrists

Damp and bruised by strangers' kisses on my lips

But you're the one that I still miss

You're the one that I still miss

And it's ruthless that it comes as no surprise

I'm not the man you think I am

I'm not the man you think I am