Andrew Calhoun

Battling Tops 

©1975 Andrew Calhoun, recorded on Walk Me to the War. 

I wish you loved yourself more 
Then I could love you too 
The shadow knows you 
Better than I do 
I'm spinning toward you madly 
And you're running from the drone 
But like a battling top 
I will not stop 
Until I stand alone 

When I was a child 
I got to feeling really weird 
I wanted to play 
But I started to pray 
I got stuck in Santa's beard 
I got caught in the web 
My little fingers bled 
And I began to scream 
And I thought I'd go crazy 
But my daddy saved me 
And he told me it was all a dream 
I'm spinning toward you madly 
And you're running from the drone 
But like a battling top 
I will not stop 
Until I stand alone 

It's a little bit queer 
You can't meet me out here 
And you want me in your den 
And my mother said 
If I get caught in the web 
That my daddy can't save me again 
I'm spinning toward you madly 
And you're running from the drone 
But like a battling top 
I will not stop 
Until I stand alone