A Failure’s Unlike a Failure

Meet me naked in the morning, let’s discuss another choice
Of your brilliant recognitions, of your sidewalks and your clothes
Though your kisses promise nothing they’re still giving me a chance
To be honest in this whirlpool, to be permanent in change
Still you keep your mind well chained babe and you think I won’t behave
So you say once more it’s over and I never made the grade
But a failure’s unlike a failure
And a prayer’s unlike a prayer
Yes a failure’s unlike a failure
And a prayer’s unlike a prayer

Meet me shadowless and hurried, like you’ve never seen me be
Oh I know you left this wasteland for the peaceful country wind
But I still can hear your footsteps and I still can see your eyes
And I’m talking to your mirror though reflections don’t come round
Still to kneel here is to have you and to have you is to sleep
In the presence of your sainthood, where the sun forever weeps
But a failure’s unlike a failure
And a thief’s unlike a thief
But a failure’s unlike a failure
And a thief’s unlike a thief

So you happen to be worried everytime we get too close
And you find another reason as I lose another word
Still to be there is to have you and to have you is to sleep
In the presence of your saints, in your sentimental digs
But a failure’s unlike a failure
And a thief’s unlike a thief
But a failure’s unlike a failure
And a thief’s unlike a thief

Is it really necessary, to become your favorite slip
And your conscience is exploding, oh keep amusing me
Just to rest inside your palace, or to fade into your arms
And that’s all I need today, and it’s all you’d need tonight
So I guess I must be goin’, see the moon is hangin’ low
And I got no time to waste, it’s a sorry little world
But a failure’s unlike a failure
And a word’s unlike a word
But a failure’s unlike a failure
And a word’s unlike a word