I'll Cover You

I come home, don't know where you are
 You must be working pretty hard
 I feed the cat half a can of food
 And I sit at the table and I wait for you
 And I don't like doubting
 How this old love will hold
 But I have my moments
 When I'm just waiting for it to explode
 Oh, no good deals in these mine fields today
 It don't matter how I walk, I could get blown away
 Underneath the soil and the flowers
 I can hear a ticking down from years to hours
 There's not a lot of air in this third floor flat
 You want to go outside you want to get some by
 You have said that you cannot breathe
 When you're caught up inside here with no reprieve
 I have been trying
 Not to hold you to your lines
 But I feel you leaning
 Out more all the time
 Oh, no good deals in these mine fields today
 It don't matter how I walk, I could get blown away
 Underneath the soil and the flowers
 I can hear a ticking down from years to hours
 Forever is a word I leave on the shelf
 I don't want history to repeat itself
 So I take it night by night
 And I try not to hold you too tight
 I have been dancing
 Up and down the words
 Trying to find out why
 Things are not the way they were
 Oh, no good deals in these mine fields today
 It don't matter how I walk, I could get blown away
 Underneath the soil and the flowers
 I can hear a ticking down from years to hours