Lyrics
I'm leaving out the parts I don't like
I'm omitting undesirable aspects
Oh I ought to learn, I ought to learn
Recognition of the need to learn
I can't please myself every time
Acknowledgment of inability to satisfy oneself always
Bring me sunflowers and bring me a
Desire for sunflowers and a picturesque scene
Landscape of clouds and rain
Yearning for a landscape with clouds and rain
Let the sky give up her
Letting go of warnings from the sky
Many heavy hammered warnings
Reference to ominous warnings in the sky
I'll take her warning
Acceptance of the sky's warning
But you assumed, when I left
Assumption about returning, expecting care
Mommy would wash my body back to you
Expectation of maternal care after departure
Back to you
Reiteration of returning to someone
How many things? How many things
Rhetorical question about expressing thoughts
Can I say to you
Questioning the limits of communication
And expect shock horror, shock
Anticipating extreme reactions to words
Horror, shock horror, hallelujah
Repetition of anticipation, including a positive note
To descend again in sweet oblation
Desire for a return of positive emotions
Your god's a lion recently fed: drowsy
Metaphor for a satisfied deity
And the body, the body, the body, the body
Emphasis on the vulnerability of the body
The body it wait's for obliteration
Impatience for annihilation of the body
Come on fire don't leave me waiting for the
Impatiently urging a transformative event
World to replace me replace me
Expressing a desire for replacement
Oh, replace me
Repetition of the plea for replacement
I'll tell the truth
Commitment to honesty
I have been sleeping with the lights on
Admission of fear, maintaining illumination
Ever since I left you since I left you
Linking fear to the departure from a significant other
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