Shake me Shake me

Oh go and talk to the tenthousand things
and wear yourself out all the while
go fly a bird with thin transparent wings
and find you've forgotten to smile

      oh baby shake me
      shake me awake
      and all my sorrow
      ooh, come and take

oh should we listen to all that we hear
and become smeared as we do
truth is there's all this intractable fear
the same for me, him, she or you

       refr.

             come and take it away from me
             baby now
             take the burden off my back
             take the burden off my mind
             (heart, legs, arms etc. ...)


1972.