I Tried to Hold the World (In My Mouth)

I tired to hold the world in my mouth I tried to swallow the mountains Spread my tunnel, like a wing And I was spread beside you On a bed of down I tried to make your arching fevered body sing I tried to hold the world in my mouth I tried to hold the world in my mouth Your scars, a decoration of your reckless recreation Mine are from the jealousy of war Somewhere in a bunker, they were calling out my number As I sank into the shame beneath the floor I tried to hold the world in my mouth I tried to hold the world in my mouth Some old gypsy found me there A hundred years from anywhere She washed my muddy hair in rival blood Re-born as the survivor Her hair danced like a fire As she dragged me through the murder and the flood I tried to hold the world in my mouth I tried to hold the world in my mouth My mind of wrinkled matter Has been stretched out on the latter As she prods it with her finger-nailed swords We walked the sands of Germany In a crooked German time to be The starving incarnation of the Lord I tried to hold the world in my mouth I tried to hold the world in my mouth She's eleven different lovers, in the irrigated covers And I hydroplane above her, like a ship of bones and mean And her, the mouth of trinity Dropped gently to her wounded knee And drained my swallowed world between her teeth I tried to hold the world in my mouth I tried to hold the world in my mouth I tried to hold the world in my mouth I tried to hold the world In my mouth