The Waterboys - She Tried to Hold Me lyrics

She tried to hold me She tried to hold me She didn't know Love is letting go She said 'I'm looking for perfection' As she strode in my direction She cast her mantle round me, Said 'I'm completed since you found me' She executed her enchantment Secreted me in her encampment With diversions and pretences She dismantled my defences She tried to hold me She tried to hold me She didn't know Love is letting go She told me I was unrealistic And then she went ballistic In her powder blue pajamas, Me some flotsam in her drama She said "love's what I believe in" But inside she was seething With a cyclone raging under Like she was skin surrounding thunder She tried to hold me She tried to hold me She didn't know Love is letting go I made it to the stairwell In the street I muttered farewell With a driving wind agin me And shame exploding in me It took me six years to begin again To feel secure in my own skin again For she lingered like uranium Like a demon in my cranium She tried to hold me She tried to hold me She didn't know Love is letting go All this was long ago now And if I knew then what I know now I'd have deployed a little patience I'd have laughed at all her stipulations But I was young and I fumbled A boy-fool whose castle crumbled I couldn't save her Though I forgave her She tried to hold me She tried to hold me She didn't know Love is letting go