Windows and walls (I cannot tell you what I need)

Always a door to stand before
always a wall you're up against
for me it's women for you men
always a wall you're up against
your eyes stare off into deep space
like rockets fired from your face

       I cannot ask you what I need
       got no more bending in my knees
       ain't no horse waiting for its feed
       I cannot ask you what I need

I took a boat I took a plane
beating against the wall again
I can't get through can't get to you
seems all the universe is nude
the trappings gone, the icing done
away with by that silver sun

       refr.

your eyes are glued to the window
but what you see there I don't know
the only clues I have are dreams
so hard to know tho' what they mean
you your own window, me my wall
my voice is mute now, I can't call

       I will not tell you etc.

I sleep in sunshine, there's no trace
on my closed eyelids of a face
I doze in sunshine past this time
past faces, seasons I will try
not to drown in mirrors or in pools
you may be wise, I am a fool

       so I don't tell you etc.


1980.