Fingerprints In the Clay

I wasn’t looking for the kind of trouble I got but I’m so glad she found me
By design and being her blindfold high wire self she went and set me free
And we were lovers before we were friends
Closer than a pair of Siamese twins

She left her
Fingerprints in the clay
She left her
Fingerprints in the clay
That soul-song lifting
Moon-stoned woman
Sure left her mark on me

She was a beauty of childlike ways and a past of nine sway-bellied lifetimes
And I became a ruler on her shelf and she became the Holy Bible on mine
Sometimes I’d wonder if she was real
Looking back that's still how I feel

She left her
Fingerprints in the clay
She left her
Fingerprints in the clay
That soul-song lifting
Moon-stoned woman
Sure left her mark on me

And it ain’t fair
But she’s become the measure of what I think a woman should be
And I’ve been looking
But I know the only place I’d ever find her equal's in a fever dream
And I bet she’d still be married
Still have the kids
Probably still be older
And be the warden of a thousand stranger's deep darkest secrets

She left her
Fingerprints
In the clay

She left her
Fingerprints
In the clay

That soul-song lifting
Moon-stoned woman
Sure left her mark on me

She sure left her mark on me

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