Keepers-Del Amitri

[ti:Keepers] [ar:Del Amitri] [al:Del Amitri] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.13]Keepers - Del Amitri [00:00.72]Written by：Currie/Harvie/Tolland/Tyagi [00:01.36] [00:10.03]I have overloved you and overseen you [00:14.52]And now you're refusing the gifts that I bring you [00:19.11]My hands have been clasping my hot head and asking [00:23.57] [00:24.15]If she submits to me will she be my property [00:28.06] [00:28.73]You may be bleeding but you're not dying [00:31.56]Though you are dying to go [00:33.80]Stop teasing me [00:35.50]I'm not seeing you leaving me [00:41.38] [00:47.41]Here is a party full of my friends [00:51.74]And here is a cup being filled up to be drunk again [00:56.79]We are just starting luxurious lives [01:00.86]To be drunkards and diddymen [01:03.22]Making gulf wars and battered wives [01:05.78]I may be pleading [01:07.92]But there's no love nor fear in my eyes [01:11.01]Just greediness [01:12.59]I'm not seeing this sleeping dog lie [01:15.55]I am the wild horses who will drag you away [01:18.57]I am the locked door who can make you stay [01:21.46]And I will act the man in almost anyway I can [01:23.80]So I can keep keep keep you [01:26.73] [01:39.67]So wake up you pretty thing to a wonderful home [01:43.61] [01:44.14]Where we while away the happy Saturdays [01:46.24]Between the television and the telephone [01:48.70] [01:49.21]And I stroke your head just to feel what I own whispering [01:53.67]Will you be my property and not my disability [01:58.19]And why are you craving [02:00.29]To be free from love's slavery [02:03.29] [02:03.85]Stop teasing me [02:05.46]Love's not letting go [02:08.89] [02:17.12]I am the child calling you to come back and play [02:20.62]I am the concert hall in which you hear me say [02:23.54]I'll act a man in almost anyway I can [02:25.99]So I can keep keep keep you even though [02:28.13]You may not understand [02:29.88]I am the bee and you are the pollen [02:32.58]I am the keeper you are the lion [02:35.46] [02:35.98]I am the holes down which you would have fallen [02:38.57]If I had not been the hand who came and beckoned you [02:41.49]Backened you you you [02:45.45] [03:46.16]Maybe [03:49.23] [03:49.75]You were born wrong [03:51.62]But why am I picking holes in you [03:53.85]When it's holes that we all come from [03:56.42]Maybe I was born strong [04:00.74]To stop love from overtaking me [04:03.01]To stop love from living too long [04:04.81] [04:05.63]And you may be bleeding [04:07.82]And leading me to the blood flow [04:11.07]But sleep tight tonight lions [04:13.14]This keeper's never letting go