You in the Bag

The moon is high
The bottle's dry
It's time to speak it plain
Do we call our long engagement
By a legal tender name

We've two low scores
In social mores
We shelvers of the book
We ain't read it, but we're here to take a look

Would we give our hearts completely
Crying out and running blind
Like a Marco Polo gunning toward the wall

Would we dance it oh-so-sweetly
Tangled in the ties that bind
In a perfect pas de deux before we fall

The hour is drawing nearer, dear
To settle things in stone
And cement the slack foundation
Of our humble little home
If bells and rings and squeaky springs
Remind us what we're not
Remember what's in our lot
I'm grateful for what I've got

I've got you in the bag already
I've got you in the bag already
Am I beaming with pride
Have we nothing to hide
I've got you in the bag already

I've got you in the bag already
I've got you in the bag already
May my spirit retain
Half the love it sustains
I've got you in the bag

My waves of words collect and curl
And crash right where you stand
Inundating the remainder
Of co-habitable land
We beat the horse to death, of course
And dragged him through the flood
Do be careful we don't track in any mud

Do I stand my ground obliquely
Here behind the crooked line
That my toe so woefully dragged through the soil
Do I state it more thank meekly
From the corners of my mind
In the shuffling of another mortal coil

With each new leg the question's begged
What are we boys to do
Do we pay back fifty/fifty
From the debt we both accrued
And if our fifty/fifty's really more like
Ninety/ten
Take ninety from me again

Did it flounder and die
When the ocean ran dry
I've got you in the bag
I've got you in the bag
I've got you in the bag
Already