Songtexte Strange Flesh - Steve Slagg

I was given strange flesh
And then for 29 years
It grew and it stretched
From my broadening shoulders
To my muddying shoes
It's been flogged and it's been coddled
It's been worshiped and abused
They still get it wrong in the movies
They still get it wrong on the news
And it leaves me confused
It's a mystery, but it's pointing me to you

Boys like us bleed strange blood
It flows out from us
Like the songs that we sang in our old neighborhoods
Where we walked down the street, but we could never be sweet
Where we flew hand-in-hand, but we could never find land
Where we wanted to be the men our parents longed to see
No, what we wanted
Was to be
Not another sad history to repeat
It's still a mystery
When you kiss me, it's complete!

These arms I wrap around you
They lost a friend
His heart was pumping strange blood right up until the end
Now I carry him in my bones
The world was too much with him, now my heart's his home
The voice that whispers in your ear
It sang in a choir
My feet danced in the Spirit, and my chest held fire
Now I sing that tune alone
Dominus vobiscum, et cum spiritu tuo
But I can also sing with you
You look me in the eyes, man, there's nothing I can't do
But you'll have to share my heart
It lies broken like Communion
And mine is the smallest part

Lover, we make strange love
When I'm with you, I do things I'm proud of!
We'll walk down the street and go ahead and act sweet
We'll fly hand-in-hand to every corner of this land
Help me say what I mean
I'll help you do what you should
Our love may not be clean, but love
I think it might be good
And if we are wrong, like they have told us all along
Call me a fool, love, cause I am
He's a mystery, this strange man