Keepers Lyrics - Del Amitri - Del Amitri

I have over loved you and overseen you 

And now you're refusing the gifts that I bring you 

My hands have been clasping my hot head and asking 

"If she submits to me, will she be my property?" 

You may be bleeding but you're not dying 

Though you are dying to go 

Stop teasing me 

I'm not seeing you leaving me 

Here is a party full of my friends 

And here is a cup being filled up to be drunk again 

We are just starting luxurious lives to be drunkards and diddymen 

Making Gulf wars and battered wives 

Now I may be pleading 

But there's no love nor fear in my eyes 

Just greediness 

I'm not seeing this sleeping dog lie 

I am the wild horses who will drag you away 

I am the locked door who can make you stay 

And I will act the man in almost anyway I can 

So I can keep, keep, keep you 

So wake up you pretty thing to a wonderful home 

Where we while away the happy Saturdays 

Between the television and the telephone 

And I stroke your head just to feel what I own, whispering 

"Will you be my property and not my disability?" 

And why are you craving 

To be free from love's slavery? 

Stop teasing me 

Love's not letting go 

I am the child calling you to come back and play 

I am the concert hall in which you hear me say 

I'll act a man in almost anyway I can 

So I can keep, keep, keep you even though you may not understand 

I am the bee and you are the pollen 

I am the keeper, you are the lion 

I am the holes down which you would have fallen 

If I had not been the hand who came and beckoned you 

And I'm not seeing this sleeping dog lie 

Maybe you were born wrong 

But why am I picking holes in you 

When it's holes that we all come from? 

Maybe I was born strong 

To stop love from overtaking me 

To stop love from living too long 

And you may be bleeding 

And leading me to the blood flow 

But sleep tight tonight lions 

This keeper's never letting go