Keepers
Del Amitri

I have overloved you and overseen you
And now you're refusing the gifts that I bring you
My hands have been clasping my hot head and asking
if she submits to me, will she be my property?
You may be bleeding but you're not dying
Though you are dying to go
Stop teasing me
I'm not seeing you leaving me

Here is a party full of my friends
And here is a cup being filled up to be drunk again
We are just starting luxurious lives
To be drunkards and diddymen
Making gulf wars and battered wives.
Now I may be pleading
But there's no love nor fear in my eyes
Just greediness
I'm not seeing this sleeping dog lie.

I am the wild horses who will drag you away
I am the locked door who can make you stay
And I will act the man in almost anyway I can
So I can keep keep keep you.

So wake up you pretty thing to a wonderful home
Where we while away the happy saturdays
Between the television and the telephone
And I stroke your head just to feel what I own
Whispering
will you be my property, and not my disability?
And why are you craving
To be free from love's slavery
Stop teasing me
Love's not letting go.

I am the child calling you to come back and play
I am the concert hall in which you hear me say
I'll act a man in almost anyway I can
So I can keep keep keep you even though you may not understand
I am the bee and you are the pollen
I am the keeper you are the lion
I am the holes down which you would have fallen
If I had not been the hand who came and beckoned you

(and I'm not seeing this sleeping dog lie)

Maybe
You were born wrong
But why am I picking holes in you
When it's holes that we all come from?
Maybe I was born strong
To stop love from overtaking me
To stop love from living too long.
And you may be bleeding
And leading me to the blood flow
But sleep tight tonight lions
This keeper's never letting go.


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Lyrics by Del Amitri

  Always the Last to Know   Always the Last to Know (Single Mix)   As Soon as the Tide Comes In   Baby, It's Me   Be My Downfall   Before the Evening Steals the Afternoon   Behind the Fool   Being Somebody Else   Breaking Bread   Buttons on My Clothes   Cash and Prizes   Ceasefire   Cindy Incidentally   Crashing Down   Crows in the Wheatfield   Cruel Light Of Day   Cry To Be Found   Cry to Be Found [#]   Deceive Yourself   Deceive Yourself (In Ignorant Heaven)   Don't Come Home Too Soon   Driving with the Brakes On   Drunk In A Band   Empty   Food for Songs   Former Owner   Funny Way To Win   Hammering Heart   Hatful of Rain   Heard Through a Wall   Here and Now   High Times   I Was Here   I Won't Take The Blame   In the Frame   In the Meantime   It Might As Well Be You   It's Never Too Late To Be Alone   Jesus Saves   Just Before You Leave   Just Getting By   Just like a man   Just Like a Man [Edit]   Kiss This Thing Goodbye   Kiss This Thing Goodbye [LP Version]   Last Cheap Shot At The Dream   Last Love Song   Life By Mistake   Life Is Full   Long Journey Home   Long Way Down   Lucky Guy   Make It Always Be Too Late   Medicine   Mother Nature's Writing   Move Away Jimmy Blue   Never Enough   No Family Man   Not Where It's At   Not Where It’s At   Nothing Ever Happens   One More Last Hurrah   One Thing Left to Do   Opposite View   Out Falls The Past   Paper Thin   Return of Maggie Brown   Roll To Me   Scared to Live   She's Passing This Way   Sleep Instead of Teardrops   So Many Souls to Change   Some Other Sucker's Parade   Someone Else Will   Sometimes I Just Have To Say Your Name   Spit In The Rain   Spit in the Rain [#]   Start With Me   Sticks & Stones, Girl   Sticks And Stones, Girl   Stone Cold Sober   Surface of the Moon   Tell Her This   Tell Her This [LP Version]   The First Rule of Love   The Last Love Song   The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere   The Return of Maggie Brown   The Verb to Do   The Whole World is Quiet   This Side Of The Morning   Through All That Nothing   To Last a Lifetime   Verb to Do   Wash Her Away   What I Think She Sees   When I Want You   When You Were Young   When You Were Young [Radio Mix]   Whiskey Remorse   Won't Make It Better   You're Gone

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