Around My Finger Lyrics

Can you listen to this story as I speak it?

Off key and out of breath don't touch the dial

And if I spill a secret please don't leak it

Because I'm bathing in a hot tub of denial

Eventually my brain fills up with nonsense

A sacrament of warped defenseless style

If you'd wrap your crooked legs around my finger

I'd wrap my crooked heart around your smile

The wise man and the preacher met this evening

In a swamp outside the courtroom for awhile

As the poet and his mistress started breathing

In a place where blind ambition went on trial

There were twenty thousand spiders in the rafter

As a snake slithered across a bathroom tile

As she wrapped her crooked legs around his finger

He wrapped his crooked heart around her smile

Tomorrow isn't really such a bad place

Today whispers

There's something to believe

When you're hiding all your love inside a suitcase

And storing all your memories up your sleeve

Our futures like an artist's empty canvass

Our past like bags of garbage in a pile

If you'd wrap your crooked legs around my finger

I'd wrap my crooked heart around your smile

But the question

Is there something here worth wrapping?

Can't be answered by the poet or the thief

While the audience stand ignorant and clapping

Blind faith squares off with the remnants of belief

As the trembling of a wine sick shattered hobo

Puts a black mark on the savior's spotless file

If you'd wrap your crooked legs around my finger

I'd wrap my crooked heart around your smile