Love Without Greed - Graham Parker, The Rumour

I can see a man, well dressed and tanned

Collecting you in secret in a long sedan

I can hear you laugh at all his jokes

Taking everything that’s offered until it chokes

And it makes me want to get a lock and key

Hold you down in one place for me

Can’t own the flesh and blood I need

Can’t have love without greed, without greed oh oh oh

He may get your kiss and believe that it’s his

But you know baby I hit your heart where where the others only missed

You can ease your heat in a penthouse suite

While I’m in a hotel with some hanger-on under those dirty sheets

And it makes me want to get a lock and key

Hold you down in one place for me

Can’t own the flesh and blood I need

Can’t have love without greed

Love without greed would give me some hope

When I reach out in the night and grope

But there’s nothing there but the next day coming in

And the alarm bell goes ring ring ring ring ring

It goes ring ring ring ring ring

It goes ring ring ring ring ring

You can ease your heat in a penthouse suite

While I’m in a hotel with some hanger-on under those dirty sheets

And it makes me want to get a lock and key

Hold you down in one place for me

Can’t own the flesh and blood I need

Can’t have love without greed

Can’t own the flesh and blood I need

Can’t have love without greed

Can’t have, love without greed