The Mountain Goats — Feed This End

[Intro: spoken sample] All right Come here, you What? Today I want you to be my love slave Yes, master, oh you! Oooh It goes both ways It does? Mmm, yeah You want me to be your love slave? Uh-huh [Verse 1] Stood near the cage of the prize-fighting cock Sun cut through the clouds but the air pressure dropped And I touched your hair for the very first time I have that moment with me now, it's all mine [Refrain] And you showed me a thing or two about power In its purest form [Verse 2] A few minutes later you went back inside And I stood near the clothesline where strips of beef dried Hanging in the noonday sun, flies were buzzing nearby And then your face in the window caught my eye [Refrain] And you showed me a thing or two about power In its purest form [Verse 3] Things don't look much different now from where I stand Looking for you, camera in hand Someone's gone away, and someone's gotten taller But the world stopped turning, and the universe is much smaller [Refrain] Since you showed me a thing or two about power In its purest form [Outro] Yeah, you showed me a thing or two about power In its purest form