Everything About You - Robyn Hitchcock

My brain begins to bleed

You’ve got what i need

You will be my friend

You’re walking on the floor

In your marshmallow shoes

I never hear a sound

There’s nothing i can lose

You’re turning on the light

I hear your breathing, low

You’re looking for your stick

You got some place to go

I love everything about you:

I love your crooked smile

The way i try to please you

And have done for a while

It could go either way

You could blow up or be cool

I love everything about you

I’m just back at school

Give the time away

Guilt your life away

Got no way to make it always happen

From a verbal bath

When you’re feeling sad

Just remember: all the eyes will be growing on you

I love everything about you:

I love your summer look

I love your freeform heels

You’re sharpening the blade

You’re gonna show me how it feels

You say «lessons must be learned

Our needles are on guard»

«i don’t know what i’ve done»

«oh don’t you?

well, think hard.»

There’s a crowd of individual, separate souls

With their death wishes, and their personal goals

When you’re walking through the floor

You say «here's one, here’s two, here’s three, here’s four.

one, two, three,

here’s four.»

I’m looking at what you’ve folded round me

I hear the kindness in your voice

The empathy of the torturer who has no choice

On rails on cruelty we learn

To blow the candles out

To keep us all alive

To keep us all in doubt