I Gave You Lyrics - Singles - Bonnie Prince Billy

I gave you a child, and you didn't want it 

Thats the most that I have to give. 

I gave you a house, and you didn't haunt it 

Now where am I supposed to live. 

I gave you a tree and you did not embrace it 

I gave you a nightmare and you didn't chase it 

I'd give you a dream and you'd only wake from it 

Now I'll never go to sleep again. 

I'd give you a treasure and you'd only take from it 

Look at the hole where jewelry had been 

Baby oh baby 

Why must you escape from it 

This love that we once called our friend. 

(hoo ooo, ooo. hoo ooo ooo...) 

I gave you my body and you ate aplenty 

I gave you ten lives and you wasted twenty. 

Now I'm standing empty, helpless and bare, without a morsel left of me to give 

And you, you have vanished, into the air 

The air in which I must live