Oh Andy I'm afraid I don't know what I'm made of anymore
Can't make sense of all these shatterlings upon the bedroom floor
There'll be no sleeping here,
Just blurs of sorrow through the open door
Shoulda warned those boys about me, shoulda warned those boys
I never mean to but somehow i always spill the loving cup
It's in some passionate exchange, it's in the way I don't let up
Cannot trust myself in love, seems I always fuck it up
Better warn those boys about me, you better warn those boys
'Cause I bruise them, every one
There's a hole in the palm of my love
I cut them; they run
Through the hole in the palm of my love
My first love wouldn't tell me why he changed his mind about our plans
Some vicious word I spoke just
Burned the gold right off the wedding band
Kept it to himself and now the ash is flying through my hands
Shoulda warned that boy about me
And Andy, I'm afraid this story's gonna play out like the rest
I'll take this broken bird and hold him to my hopeful, heaving chest
Sing the mountain down while god remains oblique and unimpressed
Shoulda warned that boy about me
'Cause I bruise them, every one
There's a hole in the palm of my love
I cut them; they run
Through the hole in the palm of my love
Should they lock me up, oh Andy, would you throw away the key
Let's not talk about the girl I was and the wife I'll never be
Let 'em cut the sword from underneath my tongue and set me free
Say something good about me, say something good
Though I bruised them, every one
There's a hole in the palm of my love
I cut them; they run
Through the hole in the palm of my love
There's a sword under my tongue
And a hole in the palm of my love
And Andy, one more thing, I'm leaving this old violin to you
For all those easy nights and emails and the honest talking-to
For every lie I told I never played a note that wasn't true
That's one good thing about me, the one good thing
'Cause I bruise them, every one
There's a hole in the palm of my love
I cut them; they run
Through the hole in the palm of my love
There's a sword under my tongue
And a hole in the palm of my love
Can't save a single one
With a hole in the palm of my love