O Song - Augie March

You don’t keep me company

You all turn out wrong

If you are my daughters, if you are my sons

I can only hold you inside for so long

O song, did I lead you on?

If you are my love, well love what’s wrong?

You don’t keep me company for near enough long

I can’t feel or touch you, or hold you for long

O song, are you leading me on?

Friends come in time, and then they are gone

I know what it’s like to be floating along

Without a warm body to heap your cares on

O on and into the night

For I have been bad now for twenty years long

For centuries you have been pure and strong

If you thought me a good place to stay you were wrong

O song, did I lead you on?