436

you came to me this morning /and you handled me like meat.
you´d have to be a man to know /how good that feels, how sweet.
my mirror twin, my next of kin /i´d know you in my sleep.
and who but you would take me in/a thousand kisses deep?

i loved you when you opened/like a lily to the heat.
you see, i´m just another snowman/standing in the rain and sleet,
who loved you with his frozen love/his second-hand physique,
with all he is, and all he was/a thousand kisses deep.

i know you had to lie to me /i know you had to cheat
to pose all hot and high /behind the veils of sheer deceit
our perfect porn aristocrat /so elegant and cheap
i’m old but i’m still into that /a thousand kisses deep.

i'm good at love, i'm good at hate /it's in between i freeze.
been working out, but it's too late /it's been too late for years.
but you look good, you really do /they love you on the street,
if you were here, i'd kneel for you/a thousand kisses deep.

the autumn moved across your skin /got something in my eye,
a light that doesn't need to live /and doesn't need to die.
a riddle in the book of love /obscure and obsolete
‘til witnessed here in time and blood /a thousand kisses deep.

and i’m still working with the wine /still dancing cheek to cheek
the band is playing auld lang syne /but the heart will not retreat
i ran with diz, i sang with ray /i never had their sweep
but once or twice they let me play /a thousand kisses deep.

i loved you when you opened /like a lily to the heat.
you see, i´m just another snowman /standing in the rain and sleet,
who loved you with his frozen love /his second-hand physique,
with all he is, and all he was /a thousand kisses deep.

but you don’t need to hear me now /and every word i speak,
it counts against me anyhow/a thousand kisses deep.

l.cohen