The Ascent of Man - Live in Dublin / 2005

[Verse 1]
So hesitation pulled me back
I'm stronger when I don't attract
In your eyes, I'm a lamb without a rack
And I'm getting confused
I'm a cactus trying to be a canoe
As you pan for ore in the desert, floored, I say to you
That I could never imagine a place so beautiful
I could never steal your gold away

[Chorus]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(I try to walk like a big wham bam
I came across like a battering ram)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(I try to float like a Telegram Sam
I'm trying to divine you)

[Verse 2]
My book is called "The Ascent of Man"
I marked your chapter with a catamaran
The accent's off, but I am what I am

[Chorus]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(I try to walk like a big wham bam
I came across like a battering ram)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(I try to float like a Telegram Sam
I'm trying to divine you)

[Post-Chorus, spoken]
I look at you, you look right to me
What's a man to do?
What's a man to say?

[Verse 3]
I looked for you, it's my last grandstand
A motorscootered goat-legged Pan
Figure-eighting in quicksand

[Chorus]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(I try to walk like a big wham bam
I came across like a battering ram)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(I try to float like a Telegram Sam
I'm trying to divine you)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(I try to walk like a big wham bam
I came across like a battering ram)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(I try to float like a Telegram Sam
I'm trying to divine you)

[Outro]
My hesitation pulled me back
I'm so in love I don't attract
And with my hands tied I won't crack
'Cause in my mind, I called you back

[Outro, spoken]
Thank you