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Artist/Band: Bill Callahan
Lyrics for Song: A Man Needs A Woman Or A Man To Be A Man
Lyrics for Album: Woke On A Whaleheart [2007]



When you leave, I go into our room

And lay me down on birds of paradise

It's pretty womanly in here!

Roses noting every move

Nothing goes on except what should

A vast legacy of good



And I don't know if I can uphold it on my own

I don't know if I can uphold it on my own

I don't know if I'm to be trusted

In our room

Alone



A man needs a woman or a man

To be a man

A man needs a woman or a man

To be a man



The light is explicit

Between nine and noon

The light shows a life to things thought dead

Like oaken legs and fireworks beneath the bed

Fireworks are wasted in the day

I set 'em off anyway

To pass the time 'til you return

I Can't see a thing 'til you return

Maybe a little smoke 'til you return

With fireworks

More fireworks!

And you tell me to wait

Just wait, wait

Just wait



A man needs a woman or a man

To be a man

A man needs a woman or a man

To be a man



And when it's good and dark

The sky a wet black

Like earth has turned

You say OK

Now is time, OK

Like earth has turned



Above us explode a golden lion dripping red

A blue bear spitting white

A spider of fire on a web of sparks

A green dragon with spiraled eyes

Fireworks light the way

Fireworks light the way

Before us lie many a night

Before us lie fireworks in boxes

But only in you

Deep in you

Only in you

Deep in you

Is the fire that lights them



A man needs a woman or a man

To be a man

A man needs a woman or a man

To be a man


Album Lyrics: Woke On A Whaleheart [2007]


Bill Callahan
"Woke On A Whaleheart [2007]"


1. A Man Needs A Woman Or A Man To Be A Man
2. Day
3. Footprints
4. From The Rivers To The Ocean
5. Honeymoon Child
6. Night
7. Sycamore
8. The Wheel