Can't Satisfy Me Now - Howlin' Rain

I watched you disappear

Into a crowded gray line

You were shaking off the tears from woeful eyes

But you couldn’t stop the shaking of your spine

When I was a boy

I used you soothe a cruel streak by kicking your heart around

I thought I left that side behind when I became a man

But here’s your heart right back upon the ground

That can’t satisfy me now

The sight of pain and misery

That strange gratifying sound

That wrote a fool’s history

When I saw you yesterday

The sky seized the breath from my burning throat like a toad

Your voice froze me stiff

Like I’d just seen my life’s secrets

Scattered by the wind in the road

I looked upon my Lazarus

And its shook me like I’d flown my kite into electrical skies

By some trick of time I’d forgotten your smell

And the water in the well at the bottom of your eyes

That can’t satisfy me now

The sight of pain and misery

That strange gratifying sound

That wrote a fool’s history

Why?

I just can’t say

There was so much I wouldn’t give to you

Today, in the cold light of day

It’s so clear to me

I should have loved you… too

Your broken glass eyes are calling me like a slave

They have my soul but cannot be filled

I got a spoonful of medicine I once gave

And by God it’s such a bitter pill…

That can’t satisfy me now

The sight of pain and misery

That strange gratifying sound

That wrote a fool’s history

Why?

I just can’t say…

There was so much I wouldn’t give to you

Today, in the cold light of day

It’s so clear to me

I should have loved you… too

That can’t satisfy me now… satisfy me now