I Know I Won't

Marty Willson-Piper
(Castle Music/ASCAP)

Appears On:

• Marty Willson-Piper - In Reflection (1987), Track 1
• Marty Willson-Piper - Art Attack (1988), CD Only Track 16
• Marty Willson-Piper - Live At The Knitting Factory 1988 (2000), Track 1 - Live
• Compilations Featuring Marty Willson-Piper:
  • 1st Offenders (1987)

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Lyrics (unofficial)

[rev. Apr. 21, 2015]

Oh look at the climate, burning like books
Tell me the toy time, I'll bless all the nooks
In every corner, onlookers sit
Digging their dirt and packing their kit
And they're sick and ill and they're bad and old
Over and over, stories I've told
Coins in my pocket, an elephant's tusk
I am the port and you are the port

I know I won't stay
I know I won't though you think I will
I know I won't stay
I know I won't though you think I will

Cover me up, and bury my head
A shush to the sky, there's pain in that red
The button loose, the shirt undone
And who ever will settled for sun?
I never ever live like this
You just caught me, needing a kiss
Reflections of her in splashing brooks
I came here tomorrow for love's last looks

I know I won't stay
I know I won't though you think I will
I know I won't stay
I know I won't though you think I will

And I always knew that I'd never stay
And I always knew that I'd never stay

I know I won't
I know I won't
[Repeated several times]