[Verse 1]
You can't just lie there on the bed, you know
You can't lie there without kissing back, you know
All the piles of books and not even a blood nose
I smell of blood

[Verse 2]
And is there nothing I can do to you?
Is there nothing to add here?
I look through the sand in your mouth
And pick out the pearls and
Place them in the beaks of the pigeons

[Chorus]
I did it once
The dead, dead water lily thing
Water!

[Verse 3]
You must have known that when I left
I felt your head turning but had no mercy
My words were simple – I'd given up poetry
And climbed back into the tower
Up the fine-plaited ladder

[Verse 4]
In the car – can you feel the sweater tag itching
Pulling at the neck where I tied your threads together?
Your spine plaited down
Your back the feminine side
But not on my body
[Chorus]
And slowly I
Reel you in, reel you in
In!

[Interlude]
And so, uh... unraveling with me up the escalators
Down the road, around the corner
Untie my hair from the ocean of winter
The roads and the cars
Dissolve behind me as I untie you
Walk on the water
On the sweet water lilies

[Outro]
There's no giving back, you take and take again
Is that what you want?