've been asked to write a song without a swear word or a slight

At myself or another, for my mother for my bride

A song that'll shine on my kids and theirs to come

Something that'll love them and watch over when I'm gone

To my ward, to my wheel-chair, to my runner's-up drip

Will you push me will you pull when I'm too fat to see my¦

Didn't I always tell you I'd stay for 2000 years?

You'd better hope that science fiction doesn't have good ears

You're rubbing on my genie hurry up and make a wish

Quenched that thirst my bag is burst watch out for all my¦

Flies trying to break in to my eyes like little rymes

Of hatred trying to squeeze inside all these precious lines

I see across to the hills and the bridge that wears the sun

I remember how I feel when I know you're going to come

Running up the stairway and through the front door

Cook us dinner then we burst, take pictures on the floor

Remember when I sing my songs that opposites attract

That's why these shavings of despair come zooming to my heart

For he is gold and magnet-red and beacon and a light

I take these flies and pick them off and catalogue the night

So put it in your eyes any way that you like

I say the words and feel your heart when I lie awake at night

I know sometimes I'm moody and you have to wear kid-gloves

I'm trying hard to better myself I'm trying to rise above

So I tried to write a song without a swear word or a slight

At myself or another at my mother at my bride

I almost got accosted by the good old negative

And even when I'm screaming love I'm swearing that it is¦

Shouldn't I just admit it that I've lost the race to lose

Break the record in it's track and stop being confused

A friend to my failures and a friend to myself

Is what I'll be when I've fixed the roof and everything else.