Woke from a dream in which you'd left me Posing for cars on the American stoop Don't make me beg you just 'cause you can I'm just a woman with loneliness I'm just a woman with needs ♪ And how could you ever conceive How much I need you, how truly barren I can be? They say that time, it is the only certainty But it's been one o'clock for hours Oh, the day is long, untangling ♪ Can't sort release from what I sold you Is this what it takes to enjoy the day? All of my pleasures left on display I'm just a hollow root pushing through I'm just the empty space inside the room ♪ And how could you ever conceive This adolescent heart skipping beats? When all your love, it grows full and firm beneath Without a festered thought, without an emerald want Just a single slow desire fermenting