IF YOU WERE MINE

IF YOU WERE MINE
mid 91

Shattered seconds on the wire
Baby we couldn’t get much higher
Sultry shapes in shadows low
There is something you don’t know

I am not the open book
Don’t have my life spilled on the floor
Don’t take the time to look
Cause you won’t want to see me anymore

Battered vagrants on my lawn
Waiting for some favored dawn
I don’t have two smiles to give
You don’t understand how I live

Flattered egos on parade
Victims of the mass charade
Paltry passions pass the time
This is what might have been
If you were mine