
Around My Finger Lyrics
- Genre:Acoustic
- Year of Release:1996
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