I Gave You - Matt Sweeney, Bonnie "Prince" Billy

I gave you a child and you didn’t want it

That’s the most that I have to give

I gave you a house and you didn’t haunt it

Now where am I supposed to live?

I gave you a tree and you did not embrace it

I gave you a nightmare and you didn’t chase it

I’d give you a dream and you’d only wake from it

Now I’ll never go to sleep again

I’d give you a treasure and you’d only take from it

Look at the hole where jewelry had been

Baby, oh baby, why must you escape from it?

This love that we once called our friend

I gave you my body and you had a-plenty

I gave you ten lives and you wasted twenty

Now I’m standing empty, helpless and bare

Without a morsel left of me to give

And you, you had vanished into the air

The air in which I must live