I Know You
Walking with you through the courtyardWhere everything is marble and smoothYou said the idea of perfectionWas just fundamentally cruel
And talked about joining the circusAnd trading your face for a mask
Oh I know you, want toI just don't believe that you can
We made quite a pair in the morningWe both tend to traffic in dreamsSeeing it now from the outsideYou kept all your dark ones from me
And said you plan to go ramblingAs you sat on that big window sill
Oh I know you, want toI just don't believe that you will
You long to go hide in the brambleOr fall off the face of the earthYou wish you could live with the beggarsOn the steps of some crumbling church
You say you'd like to go hungryBut the truth is you just had your fill
Oh I know you, want toI just don't believe that you will
On Sundays you stroll through the marketAnd feel like you traveled through timeBuying back all your possessionsThat were stolen from some former lifeReturn to me tied in a corsetTo say "don't you know who I am?"
Oh I know you, want toI just don't believe that you canYes I know you, want toI just don't believe that you can
And trying to make an inventionSomething the worlds never seenTo sweep away all of the troubleAnd leave the place shiny and clean
Patent your brave new creationAnd hold it right there in your hand
Oh I know you, want toI just don't believe that you can
I waited for you at the landingThe water was crystal and calmAll these ideas of foreverAre just fundamentally wrong
You say that your love makes you honestThen you're caught with your hand in the till
Oh I know you, want toI just don't believe that you willYes I know you, want toI just don't believe that you will