At first you seemed just like my dream of a finer better life   Much more than I could ask for in a lover or a wife   Though I work with my body and my work makes my hands rough   There are gentle things inside me that are anythin' but tough      There are lessons you could teach me, things I do not know   Things I've never done, girl, and places we could go   But you only wear your tailored suits for me to rip and tear   Ah, can't I hold you quietly and smell your perfumed hair      I saw you as the answer that I never dared to dream   I saw you as the window into a world I'd never seen   I saw you as the vision come to raise me from the mud   But you came to use my sweat to cool, the fever in your blood      I'm not Marlon Brando on his motorcycle bike   When you call me your animal, it's a name I do not like   Oh, please, do not tear my back, yes, of course I bleed   The violence you thirst for is not what I need      Your silken skin is armor that begs for brutal hands   But why can't I be gentle and tell you of my plans   And I know now that you're usin' me, not I just usin' you   And you're not so scared of losin' me, as I of losin' you      At first you seemed just like my dream of a finer better life   Much more than I could ask for in a lover or a wife   Though I work with my body and my work makes my hands rough   There are gentle things inside me that are anythin' but tough      I saw you as the answer that I never dared to dream   I saw you as the window into a world I'd never seen   I saw you as the vision come to raise me from the mud   But you came to use my sweat to cool, the fever in your blood