jethro tull - bends like a willow lyrics

she's catching the wind... the gentlest of breezes.
it's a sensitive passage she's sailing -
through stormy straits, navigates my unfathomable failings.

she rises before me, reading me clearly.
empty nest left pressed in the pillow.
she can shift, she can sway
and bend like a willow.

i'm swept in the riptide. caught in a fish trap.
gift-wrapped in my soft self centre.
summer sun leaves me as one who can only taste winter.
she's a good, a good god-send... she can bend like a willow.

with a fully armed angel to cover me quickly,
i'm cool under enemy fire.
if i fall, she can crawl right under the wire.

when i'm caustic and cold, she might dare to be bold -
ease me round to her warm way of thinking...
fill me up from the cup of love that she's drinking.
and i find, given time, i can bend like a willow.
she bends like a willow
bends like a willow.
like a willow.
willow.