Be My Own

We never sleep at night

But we’ll spend the days in bed

And you walk down the stairs ever so gingerly

Could’ve lived but I chose to love you instead

Fix me your poison, gin for your molly

Lime for your bruises and chalk for your holly

Tell me you’re sleeping

I can’t if you won’t

Yeah you could be my own

The way that you smile when something pleasant is up in your mind

And you put your tiny lips to my ear

We could break this old routine, this apartment you and me

We could leave this town my dear

Rats in your armchair, burrs in your cotton

Baby turn my engines from polished to rotten

Promise you’ll keep me in a box by the phone

Yeah you could be my own

Would you burn all the crows in my fields?

Sing me to sleep

You won’t ever have to walk, cause my cars just down the block

And japan’s only two weeks away if you travel by sea

Love where you moving? Heart where you going?

Your clothes on the floor, yeah your bruises are showing

Airplanes can take you to paris or rome

But you’ll still be my own

Bells in the boathouse, champagne and icing

It’s just like the movies, yeah your parents are crying

Our family’s all gathered but we’re getting stoned

Yeah you could be my own

I left all her pictures in a box by the road

So you could be my own