Against the Break

I’ve been pressing up against him

Pressing all myself

All of me

Right up tight against him

Like you told me to

And he’s breaking

Little bit by little bit

I can feel it

Bits peeling off

And flaking

Him telling me to back up

And me just pushing on harder

Like I don’t understand

How’d you know

To do the opposite

Of what he was telling me?

And how come you knew

I wouldn’t get hurt?
That he wouldn’t try to hurt me?

You know so much stuff

Sometimes I just look at you

To see if I can tell

When you’re learning it

You got these big ideas

And this big head

To hold it all in

Oh well you know what I mean!

Don’t get all mad about it

I’ve been good, haven’t I?

Haven’t I been doing

All the things you said

And just the way

You said to do them?

You don’t appreciate

That I have talent

That I got stuff all my own

Not like your stuff

Not like all that stuff

You keep inside that mind of yours

But stuff

Stuff good enough

To get us into some kinda position

Where we can break a man

Last night I got so close to him

He started whimpering

Like a little puppy

Because his faith

His faith was just breaking up

And I’m telling you

A little more of that

And he’ll be good to go

Won’t be nothing left of him

But a Bible

And a bunch of prayers

Nobody’s answering

You know, I made myself so weak

So falling apart kinda--

That I just knew he was looking at me

And thinking he had to give

Putting me back together

A right good shot

He wants to carry me places

And put me down

And fetch me things

And I’m just gonna say--

‘Oh, thank you, baby

Thank you so much’

Like I can’t do for myself

Because why?

Why do for yourself
When you got a broken man

To do it for you?

A broken man

Who needs something to do

Somebody

To put back together

Because he can’t put himself

Back together

And isn’t it funny

That the person he wants to help

Is the one who broke him?

God, people are so strange

Do you ever think about that?
About how strange

People are sometimes?

I think about it all the time

How a person can ask you

To do something for them

And all the while

They’re looking at you

Knowing you’re so hot

If they ever really got to touch you

They’d burn up

Just like the person

They’re turning you on

No use in a weapon

You can’t hold

Am I right?

Gee, you’re so smart

So much smarter than me

What do I know, right?

You’re the one

With all the big

Ideas