Mountain Goats (The)

Earth Air Water Trees
through the shifting colors in the sky i heard the wild geese call. and the liwas bright and clear and cold over eastern montreal and although, i know you're only toying with me now, and although, i know you hold your affection for me like a bone on a string i love you, i love you because you gave me sausage and cheese when i was hungry. you hold your closed hand out to me and you told me to guess what you had inside and i had a thousand guesses and some of them were good but i knew for some reason that i was losing my mind when the scent came rising through the spaces between your fingers when the scent called to me and i knw we'd last at least until the end of december i love you, i love you because you gave me sausage and cheese when i was hungry Aus Songtexte Mania