In The Middle
Stubborn as hell, that's what you are
Stick to your side of the car
Can you love me with your strings?
With your friends and other pretty things?
Who knows, who knows better than I what I want?
All of my dreams are off jumping the fountains
I pluck out my teeth as the pearl bed becomes
I'll love you old if you'll love me young

Tenacious delight
The salt on my hands
And we never make
Unruly demands
I want my wishes back

We have ways to get back at each other
The metal rakes on the bridle leather
Dragging my hair behind harness ears
You call it mine, and I call it yours
Sleep where the silver digs into the girl
Step in her separate world
Love me like a wild, wild riddle
Like the house that I am in the middle
Tenacious delight
The salt on my hands
And we never make
Unruly demands
I want my wishes back

I am amazed that we've gotten this far
See, I can love you from my side of the car
Don't you agree
A nickname ain't free
Jealousy hitches the heels of your women
And slips in my mouth like a wily persimmon
A sour-metal flavor that ripens my tongue
Love me, let me be, leave me young

Tenacious delight
The salt on my hands
And we never make
Unruly demands
I want my wishes back