Pure Life

Opening riff: / / / / / / / / / / / / |-----------------------|-------------------|------------------| |-----------------------|-------------------|------------------| |---1-------------------|---1---------------|.----------------.| |---2-----------h---2---|---2-------2/4 2---|.--4-------------.| |---2-------2--2^4------|---2---------------|---4--------------| |---0-------------------|---0---------------|---2--------------| Alt. opening riff with bass line: / / / / |-------------------------| |----------h--------------| |---1-----1^2-1-----------| |---2-----------2-----2---| |---2-------------2^4-----| |---0---------------------| Taste the whiskey on your breath It's as much as I can drink these days And I haven't finished yet Just keep breathing in my face Taste the poison on your tongue Tastes like sacrament to me And like a genuflecting reptile with St. Michael I am starting to believe Here I am now in your heaven It's everything you promised me It's your paradise It's your pure life And it comes to me Pour the tonic down my throat Throw the water in my eyes Just like Romulus and Remus Sink your fangs into my thigh Whisper softly now in Farsi The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Something 'bout a glass of wine A loaf of bread and thee Here I am now in your heaven It's everything to me It's your paradise It's your pure It's your paradise It's your world It's your paradise It's your pure life And it comes to me Hold very still now, baby There's something by the bed A viper or a butterfly An angel or the magic of the dead Taste the poison on your tongue Tastes like ecstasy to me Baby, we ain't makin' love I think we're makin' history Here I am now in your heaven It's everything you promised me It's your paradise It's your pure It's your paradise A beautiful world It's your paradise It's your pure life Here I am now in your heaven It's pretty good to me It's your paradise It's your pure It's your paradise A beautiful world It's your paradise It's your pure life And it comes to me