Bonnie "Prince" Billy

I Gave You
i gave you child and you didnt want it thats the most that i have to give i gave you house and you didnt want it now where am i supposed to live? i gave you a tree and you did not embrace it i gave you a nightmare and you didnt chase it i'ld give you a dream and you'ld only wake from it now i'll never go to sleep again i gave you a tresure and you only take from it look at the hole where jewelry had been baby, oh baby why must you escape from it? this love that we once called our friend gave you my body and you had plenty i gave you ten lives and you wasted twenty now im standing empty, hopeless, and bare without a morsel left of me to give and you, you had vanished into the air the air in which i must live Aus Songtexte Mania