Starving Time Lyrics

The winter wore on your lovers were gone

The poor gathered 'round St Vincent Parish

Beneath the scarlet and blue I'd long for you

And your body all dark and restless

I thought you were mine in that old starving time

Oh but now I understand:

Though it was please you or please me I finally see

It's more important where I don't put my hand

Well I took half the year to discover "sincere":

I watched my friends sing all clever and wounded

They used their tune to silence the room

While I lifted their lines and their music

I said they were mine in that old starving time

Now I am stuck in this Country & Western

I got it all wrong confusing my song

For some little tired confession

The winter it is past Your lovers are back

I wait for the Union Pacific

I wish you were mine in this old starving time

But it's comfort we both seem to need

So blessed and grand are the women and man

Who have grown beyond their greed