I bring all these strangers home
But not for me alone
Of all these things and people that I bring home for us
You're easily led to water, bent over for the thrust
But none seem to bring you to the edge or even wet your smile
While I am always patient, waiting for you to come a while
Of all these things
All these people
None of them can
Melt your steeple
Baby's beginning to take it personally
I never thought you would
I bring all these strangers home
I thought they'd do you good
Take that woman I brought to you from the club late last week
I was glad to share with you as much as she could leak
She was married, unshaven too, we didn't seem to care
All she wanted, all you could take is that you take her there
Take that woman
Take her when
She's coming back
For you with men
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Then there's that boy - oh, he's not a boy, he was a man for real
I thought a treat for you who you could taste and feel
Certainly he was a man, he'd kneel down to drink
But that look - I could tell - I could feel your feelings shrink
And then that boy
Oh then that man
He'll come again
Right in your hand
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I'm not sure sometimes what you really want
And if I could bring it home to you from my usual haunts
But I know when I'm in deep and down you slippery fall
You're writing Braille a fingernail backstroke before you crawl
Sometimes you want
Total control
Sometimes I need
You deep in my soul
Baby's finally taking it personally
I thought you never would
I bring all these strange things home
Plug them in to do you good
It takes more and more to move you now but I can find the door
I'm always sure I'll part your hinge like a thousand times before
Your thirst is grown unholy but you hunger for me still
I know that it's wrong to do but I'll plunder you at my will
Takes more and more
To move you now
I'm door to door
To teach you how
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I bring all these things for you
And slip them in your head
Baby take this anyway
While we share our bed
Sometimes I want
Total control
Sometimes you need
Me deep in your soul
Sometimes you want
Total control
Sometimes I need
You deep in my soul
Sometimes I take
Total control
Sometimes you feed
Me deep in your soul