You don't need it

Just let me be a normal man
with his special qualities
with some jealousy, some giving
his peculiar realities
with the anger and the longing
of a very crazy beast
with his work, his loneliness
and awkward dancing at the feast

when you want
you don't need it
and when you've got it
you won't heed it
with its wear and tear
so brutalizingly fair
you don't need it
you don't need it
my, how you need it now !

So you go and be all woman
with nightly laughing, drinking
with help and hardiness and love
with your wily ways of thinking
with your security and tears
that don't always move me much
with your hunger and insistence
on that ever, that everlasting touch

refr.


1978.