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Does love keep you warm at night
Or keep you shackled, waiting to die
Strain against your wire fence and
Bark and bark, make your amends

Past your collar, bow your head and
Pray to a God that might be dead
Empty words, keep your distance
Or give in with no resistance

No matter how comfortable
Baby, chains are chains
Your touch is familiar girl, but
God I need a change

Free me from these bonds of yours
Clutches from skin deep
Alligator tears that still
Haunt me in my sleep

Does your lover take you higher
Soaring high on wings of fire
Or burn you down to ash and cinder
Choking on the flames that linger

Past your collar, bow your head and
Pray to a God that might be dead
Empty words, keep your distance
Or give in with no resistance