August & September

Suddenly last summer

I started going out of my head

In a tiny hotel room

Lying naked on a bed

I knew what you were doing

And I knew what you'd done

Your life with me was ending

Your new life had begun

But I was cursing your name

And I was cursing that room

And I was praying for the strength

To stop loving you

I started writing you the letter

Which turned into the book

I was gonna reach across the ocean

And force you to look

What kind of man was I?

Who would sacrifice your happiness to satisfy his pride?

What kind of man was I?

Who would delay your destiny to appease his tiny mind?

Then you came back to me

And I went down on one knee

With a glint in my eyes

And a rose between my teeth

And I pushed out my tongue

For you to see

That I'd been dying of a thirst

For your company

And then you quenched my loneliness

With your tears

And our clothes fell away

As we rolled back the years

But we couldn't deny it

Because we could not admit it

If our love was too strong to die

Or we were just too weak to kill it

Was our love too strong to die?

Or were we just to weak to kill it?

Every moment in that room

I closed my eyes in prayer

Every moment I awoke

I clenched my teeth in prayer

What kind of man was I?

Who would sacrifice your happiness to satisfy his pride?

What kind of man was I?

Who would delay your destiny to appease his tiny mind?

What kind of man was I?

Who could delay your destiny to appease his aching, swollen pride?

Who could delay your destiny to appease his screaming little mind?

YOU'RE MINE! YOU'RE MINE! YOU'RE MINE! YOU'RE MINE!