It was grotesque

I held the bouquet of flowers like a severed head

As though it was a carcass that I'd feast off in the winter

I knew how few and far between those things were

And so I dragged it home, you even took a picture

I held it up to show like I'd caught it on a fishhook

Are your acts of love so rare to be commemorated?

Like a beast, I'd taken down

And I'd survive the scarcity, I would go hungry

Just to prove you care for me

to feel you love me I'd make do

I've said before I bear the cold better for knowing you

I would go hunting, and whatever I caught

I would wrap it up and leave it at your door

Just so you could give it to me

And I'd thank you, thank you so profusely

You know I'd make it last and I would lick it dry

Use all of the bones and make delicate wind chimes

And I'd warm myself in winter with the animal's raw hide

For all of my hinting, you tapped out at one time

And I'd survive the scarcity, I would go hungry

Just to prove you care for me to feel you love me

I'd make do

I've said before I bear the cold better for knowing you

I cringe at the thought now

In all of its indignity

Of needing love from you

Of what that did to me

And I will never plead again just to be loved

It's not enough, it's not enough

And I survive the scarcity, and I went hungry

Just to prove you care for me to feel you love me, I made do

I've said before I bear the cold better for knowing you