Blinder by the Hour

Now you'll have to hold me up and now I'll have to fall

Sew up my eyelids, stitch up my lips

Take me down Roman stairs through your secret back door

With your lips for food and your skin for sheets

Your eyes for light and your blood for heat

And your two white arms for an overcoat

Lay me down now by your side

For I'm blinder by the hour

Take me down, out of sight

For I'm blinder, blinder by the hour

O bundle me tight in your overcoat

With the damn all we said and the damn all we wrote

In the stillness of breath in the dampness of walls

We are taking the cure, we are taking no calls

With our hair for straw and our teeth for dice

Press air through my lips slap me once or twice

I know your secret delight in vice

And this is all I have

And this is all you get

With my lips for food and my skin for sheets

My eyes for light and my blood for heat

And my two white arms for an overcoat

And this is all I have

Lay me down

And this is all you get

Take me down