I lean on you;
You need me;
We’re in debt to each other.
It’s simple, you see.
You work hard
And bring home the bread;
Without you, I’d starve
In my solitary bed.
You live in our home
Like a worker drone;
Without me you’d freeze
And be all alone.
Without you, I’d starve
Or live in privation,
We’re the lone citizens
In a private nation.
Though we never make love,
And rarely touch.
We must stay together;
For the world is too much.
Year after year,
We’re apart yet near.
No one dares rock the boat;
We’re so precariously afloat.
We could languish like this until we die;
We seem quite normal to the untrained eye.
And apart yet together, we could stay,
Until the tides of time just wash us away.
Finished on January 3, 2011
May 2, 2019
May 2, 2019 at 11:13 AM UTC
I lean on you;
You need me;
We’re in debt to each other.
It’s simple, you see.
You work hard
And bring home the bread;
Without you, I’d starve
In my solitary bed.
You live in our home
Like a worker drone;
Without me you’d freeze
And be all alone.
Without you, I’d starve
Or live in privation,
We’re the lone citizens
In a private nation.
Though we never make love,
And rarely touch.
We must stay together;
For the world is too much.
Year after year,
We’re apart yet near.
No one dares rock the boat;
We’re so precariously afloat.
We could languish like this until we die;
We seem quite normal to the untrained eye.
And apart yet together, we could stay,
Until the tides of time just wash us away.
Finished on January 3, 2011
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