Simple Thing As Love

Awake now I don't hear the floorboards

Creaking as you walk back from the window

Or feel your satin fingers

Drawing patterns on my back

Where I lay dying

Without you I'm a child

Who sucks the vacant thumb of emptiness

Left crying when he has not had enough

At the mercy of an empty room

Singing verses to some faded wall

Confused about a simple thing as love

It's too bad we couldn't stay here

Till the clock runs out

And falls from sheer exhaustion

Or till morning when I watch you

As you stoop to pick your things

Up from the floor

But too soon for us it's over

In the shock of the electric lightbulb

Sunrise from the ceiling up above

As it dangles to remind us

Of the spiderweb that binds us

And just complicates a simple thing as love

Awake now I don't hear the floorboards

Creaking as you walk back from the window

Or feel your satin fingers

Drawing patterns on my back

Where I lay dying

Without you I'm a child

Who sucks the vacant thumb of emptiness

Left crying when he has not had enough

At the mercy of an empty room

Singing verses to some faded wall

Confused about a simple thing as love