Easily Bruised

Lend me an ear I'll tell you a story
 'Bout a man who didn't know how to be
 Joined a travellin' 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 heard 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 at the moment
 And the moment's independent of time
 But who decides where truth resides
 Your guess is as good as mine
 So how 'bout a sip of the good stuff
 How 'bout 'nother 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