Life is like a lemon peel
It wraps around the way you feel
Stinging hard to something to your eyes
The taste is often bittersweet
It can knock you off your feet
Just when you think that
life holds no sur prise
All I ever think about is back
when you were my lover
How many times since then you've been
wrapped in the flesh of another
Lemon peel
Lemon peel
Standing in the shadow past, I am a needle that's holding fast,
my shoulders are full of biscuit in between.
Life sets you up to knock you down,
so you can taste the stony ground that lies beneath the comfort of your dreams.
All I ever think about is back
when you were my lover
And how many times since then you've
been wrapped in the flesh of another
Never fear, nev er fear,
never fear
All I ever think about is back
when you were my lover
And how many times since then have you been wrapped
in the flesh of another lemon peel?
Lemon peel
Lemon peel
Life is like a lemon peel
Wraps around the way you feel
The stinking pot does
something to your eyes
The taste is often bittersweet
It can love you up your feet
Just when you think that
life holds no surprise
All I ever think about is back
when you were my lover
And how many times since then you've been wrapped in the flesh of another lemon peel,
lem on peel, lemon peel
Standing in the shadow cast by lemon peel that's holding fast,
as sure as our own mystery between
Life sets you up to knock you down so you can taste the stony ground that
lies beneath the cover of your dreams, of your dream s
I'll never be alone
I'll never be alone