What we want and need from love Lyrics by Mila Bea
Baby, go
Find someone with collateral
Who’ll give you more than their word for it
All I’ve ever known is how to be a poet
I’m not good with my hands
And you’re the first god that I ever had
Can’t build you a church from scratch
I was never shown pious like that
I won’t understand
Nor must I need to know
What you want and need from love
You could be my life
But it’s too short to not find
What we want and need from love
I won’t die trying to acclimatize
I could lasso the moon
But the sun in your eyes is what you want
And need from love
I could study law and write the files
Organize the crew and start the trials
But I can’t argue with what you want
And need from love
You want somebody who will
Look you at the shaft of your cigarette butt
Dance on tippy-toes around your mother cuts
Calls you strong ‘fore it doesn’t stitch them up
Used to hate when you said that I sound like your dad
When I came in with my alcohol pads
Trying to clean up what he did to your past
You said, “who do you think taught me to down a drink like that?”
Fast was the time it took to become your wife
I was loyal, I was yours, I was dignified
Nothing’s more tempting than those Friday nights
When you’re living in fear of the rest of your life
I won’t understand
Nor must I need to know
What you want and need from love
You could be my life
But it’s too short to not find
What we want and need from love
I won’t die trying to acclimatize
I could lasso the moon
But the sun in your eyes is what you want
And need from love
I could study law and write the files
Organize the crew and start the trials
But I can’t argue with what you want
And need from love
I could build that church but you won’t believe
You’ve got wandering eyes but you still don’t see
That I should be what you want
What you want and need
And that’s what you want and need from love
And that’s what I want and need from love
And she’s what you want and need from love
So I’m giving up, I’ve had enough