Keepers Lyrics

I have overloved you and overseen you 
and now you're refusing the gifts that I bring you 
My hands have been clasping my hot head and asking 
"If she submits to me, will she be my property?" 
You may be bleeding but you're not dying 
though you are dying to go 
Stop teasing me 
I'm not seeing you leaving me 

Here is a party full of my friends 
and here is a cup being filled up to be drunk again 
We are just starting luxurious lives 
to be drunkards and diddymen 
making Gulf wars and battered wives. 
Now I may be pleading 
but there's no love nor fear in my eyes 
Just greediness 
I'm not seeing this sleeping dog lie. 

I am the wild horses who will drag you away 
I am the locked door who can make you stay 
And I will act the man in almost anyway I can 
So I can keep keep keep you. 

So wake up you pretty thing to a wonderful home 
Where we while away the happy Saturdays 
between the television and the telephone 
And I stroke your head just to feel what I own 
whispering 
"Will you be my property, and not my disability?" 
And why are you craving 
To be free from love's slavery 
Stop teasing me 
Love's not letting go. 

I am the child calling you to come back and play 
I am the concert hall in which you hear me say 
I'll act a man in almost anyway I can 
So I can keep keep keep you even though you may not understand 
I am the bee and you are the pollen 
I am the keeper you are the lion 
I am the holes down which you would have fallen 
If I had not been the hand who came and beckoned you 

(And I'm not seeing this sleeping dog lie) 

Maybe 
You were born wrong 
But why am I picking holes in you 
when it's holes that we all come from? 
Maybe I was born strong 
To stop love from overtaking me 
To stop love from living too long. 
And you may be bleeding 
and leading me to the blood flow 
But sleep tight tonight lions 
This keeper's never letting go.