Big Fat Blackberries

You said, "Hey, do me a favour and let's go
(Where the big fat blackberries grow) "
I don't have much time left we both know
(Where the big fat blackberries grow)
Like the tangling briar we'll wander and stray
(Where the big fat blackberries grow)
We shall live the life bucolic for one sweet day
(Where the big fat blackberries grow)

(Where the big fat blackberries grow)

And you said, "Stop, stop your cursing, stop your worry
We are anointed, we are given each to each"
And in similar contract with the briar a harvest is appointed
And the sweetest ripest fruit is out of reach
It's out of reach, it's out of reach, it's out of reach
So you may as well fill your face with fat fruit, baby
Fill it till it bleeds
I've always been a sucker for indignity and greed
Where the big fat blackberries grow

Painted nails on slender fingers
A dainty hand on a delicate arm
(Where the big fat blackberries grow)
You find fruit snare deep in the briar
And your flesh comes to no harm
(Where the big fat blackberries grow)

And with scratches and cuts and catching my clothes
A cursing calamitous beast
(Where the big fat blackberries grow)
There are two mouths and twenty fingers
Stained purple as proof of the feast
(Where the big fat blackberries grow)

(Where the big fat blackberries grow)

And you said, "Stop, stop your cursing, stop your worry
We are anointed, we are given each to each"
And likewise in contract with the briar a harvest is appointed
And the sweetest ripest fruit is out of reach
It's out of reach, it's out of reach, it's out of reach
So you may as well fill your face with fat fruit, baby
Fill it till it bleeds
I've always been a sucker for indignity and greed
Where the big fat blackberries grow