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