You're not the one to live for, you're not the one to die for And you think, you know what life's about But when the bottom of your floor starts falling
Make me a pallet on your floor Make me a pallet on your floor Make it soft, make it low, so your woman don't know Make me a pallet on your floor. Come
I am angry, I am ill and I'm as ugly as sin I don't know what keeps me alive and kicking I know the meaning of life, it doesn't help me a bit I know beauty
Didn't feel so cold and tired stretched out before the fire Rolling smokes and drinking up her wine And I remember candle light and singin' till we couldn
Though it's true I get real nervous A madman I am not You've got nerve say'n I've no purpose I serve the bond that you've since long forgot!! On Halloween
When we were burning These stained walls would swell with passion Our sweat warped the wooden floorboards You'd kick out the nightlight And let the
Like crippled ships that made it Through a storm and finally reached a quiet shore The homeless found a home on Susan's floor Didn't feel so cold and
Like crippled ships that made it Through the storms and finally reached a quiet shore The homeless found a home on Susan's floor I didn't feel so cold
Well, I could use a little spin on a red brick floor In that crazy ol' bar when Tim locks the door Where the walls are gonna ring and the strings are
Under the floor, between me and the door There's a presence I cannot deny It's under the car, between me and the stars I see glory filling up the sky
Like crippled ships that made it Through a storm and finally reached a quiet shore The homeless found a home on Susan's floor. Didn't feel so cold and
I could use a little spin on a red brick floor In that crazy ol' bar when Tim locks the door Where the walls are gonna ring and the strings are gonna
You're not the one to live for You're not the one to die for And you think you know what life's about But when the bottom of the floor starts falling
Under the floor Between me and the door There's a presence I cannot deny It's under the car Between me and the stars I see glory filling up the sky
When we were burning These stained walls would swell with passion Our sweat warped the wooden floorboards You'd kick out the nightlight And let the moon
I keep seeing me On the hood of an SUV Need someone to take care of me Before I take care of my Self-deprecation Desperation Are all that I have got
I rip from the sheets of my bed the stories of defeats I tear them away from the smiling throat that bleeds One motion of my hand and tenderness is leaving
Übersetzung: Lee, Dickey. Auf Susans Floor.
