Tantalus

It's a black lake that I'm standing in

It's a shallow pool and I cannot drink or swim

And the fruit trees are draping up above

I can see them but I can never touch

In my heart, in my chest like a bomb in a bag

And it's always on the edge of going off

But then you give me just enough

What you want from me?

Maybe you don't even know

How you keep me tantalized

Every day, every night

Are you oblivious to my oblivion?

You don't even know what you've done

You don't even know what you've done

You keep me dangling like that fruit upon a vine

Oh it was never mine

To keep me tantalized

Do you mean to withhold what I hunger for?

Did you just forget and don't think of me at all?

And in the garden of the world

I could have my fill

I could rage and ransack, but something holds me still

In my heart, in my chest like a bomb in a bag

And it's always on the edge of going off

But then you give me just enough

What you want from me?

Maybe you don't even know

How you keep me tantalized

Every day, every night

Are you oblivious to my oblivion?

You don't know what you've done

You don't know what you've done

You keep me dangling like that fruit upon a vine

Oh it was never mine

You keep me tantalized

What you want from me?

Maybe you don't even know

How you keep me tantalized

Every day, every night

Are you oblivious to my oblivion?

You don't know what you've done

You don't know what you've done

You keep me dangling like that fruit upon a vine

It was never mine

You keep me tantalized