Easily Bruised - Matthew Barber

Lend me an ear I’ll tell you a story

'Bout a man who didn’t know how to be Joined a travelling circus from PEI to BC

I was playing dead every morning

I was taking dives every night

Someone came and swept me off my feet in midflight

Now without a love I really got nothing

Without a love I’d hang up my shoes

It’d be a world of suffering

If this one I was ever to lose

So I’m hanging on with all of my power

I’m hanging on as tight as a noose

Around the midnight hour

She said remember that I’m easily bruised

I’ve had everything that I wanted

Had so much I threw it away

She could see that what I needed was never there anyway

Now everything around me is shifting

I’m running like a child through a maze

But I’m never lost completely 'cause an angel keeps me safe

Lord, without a love I’m dead in the water

Without a love my aim is untrue

My blood gets hotter and hotter

At the thought of leaving this angel blue

I’m hanging on with all of my power

It’s looking like our bodies might fuse

And when our cries got louder

She said 'Remember that I’m easily bruised.'

When I can’t let go And if I love too hard I’ll hurt my baby so Now everything makes sense in the moment

And the moment’s independent of time

But who decides where truth resides

Your guess is as good as mine

So have another sip of the good stuff

And have another round on me If this moment lasts forever

Then the truth we might just see

But without a love I don’t have an inkling

I’d be howling every night at the moon

And if the stars stop twinkling

The end will sure be coming soon

So I’m hanging on with all of my power

In the garden where we’re all free to choose

Any fruit or flower

She said remember that I’m easily bruised

Remember that I’m easily bruised

Remember that I’m easily bruised