[Lyric] The Hook Reprise (Vanessa Daou)

The hook.
We learned all the pleasures of the tongue
before we knew each other's names,
long after all the pain had come.

Imagine the shock of a fish
when a hook finds its mouth
and pierces it roof
then the sigh it heaves when it shakes it loose.
Our first kiss was like this.

I used to swim in open waters
like a lazy cod without a thought
of your delicious bait.
But time lets our fears loose
and they drift with no logic,
likе a cork on the sea
a role both sad and comic.

I twistеd like an unruly marlin
so I could love you this madly
and so today I am lucid as a shark
that all the world is afraid of.
I used to think that life
would be frightening
if one's eyes were so haunted
by seeing everything.

But I still dream, even if I don't sleep
and my thighs get wet
at the thought of my head
between your legs.

With you my lips act stupid as a grouper's and I make no excuses.