Blinder by the Hour

Now you'll have to hold me up And now I'll have to fall Sew up my eyelids, stitch up my lips Take me down Roman stairs through your secret back door With your lips for food. andyour skin for sheets Your eyes for light, and your blood for heat And your two white arms for an overcoat Lay me down now by your side For I'm blinder by the hour Take me down, out of sight For I'm blinder, blinder by the hour O bundle me tight in your overcoat With the damn-all we said and the damn-all we wrote In the stillness of breath. in the dampness of walls We are taking the cure, we are taking no calls With our hair for straw. and our teeth for dice Press air through my lips. slap me once or twice I know your secret delight in vice And this is all I have And this is all you get With my lips for food, and my skin for sheets My eyes for light. end my blood for heat And my two white arms for an overcoat And this is all I have Lay me down And this is all you get Take me down