Thelma

If a feeling's born and no one complains

Well that's good luck

running through young veins

And if life is a blessing

that brushes the tops of the trees

Well it's a short walk

in a sweet breeze



I will need you, feed you, seed you, plead with you

All for the taste of your sweet love Thelma

If a heart is an open memory book

That was the chance I took

The more I searched, the more shook with Thelma

Last night I slept on a rented pillow

A silver moon above my head

A thirsty dreamless sleep released me

And I reached for the phone

by the side of the bed



Now the first time that I saw you I thought

"She's beautiful, but she's too young to be caught"

People aware of my history

Trying to steer you away from me

I left a message at your hotel

Don't let management poison the well



I will need you, feed you, seed you, plead with you

All for the taste of your sweet love Thelma



The phone is ringing and I realize

we are timezones and oceans apart

The words I speak in the middle of my night

They fall on your yesterday scars



If the sun don't shine, the wind don't break

the clock don't jump off the wall

Thelma, my darling, I will cushion your fall

I will need you, feed you, seed you, plead with you

Without the taste of your sweet love Thelma



I am only a man who has skirted the edge of despair

for a long time now, and I don't care



I watch you sleeping a the hospital bed

The baby curled up in a ball

Winter sunlight hits the family tree

And everything else becomes nothing at all