Fragile - Tom Verlaine

I saw you coming in the headlights

rubbing your arms and shaking your head

you say «oh I just don’t know, it’s not so safe

and it gets so tiresome playing dead»

They’ve stolen your keys, they lifted your watch.

But you know too well, all too well

what it’s like to be caught.

Fragile Handle with care

I’ve got to face what’s never there

Influences I think I am under

they are so discouraging it seems to me They’ve stolen my secret longings for you

Please can’t you tell me is that the worst they can do?

Fragile…

She said, «Oh no I guess it is my fate

to live a life I can’t communicate

How painful… painful… but giving up is ok»

I go for your check I see your check has been paid.