i follow   head over heels   taunting me like a messiah   says, "do you believe in me?"      i see you   call out for me   the line between Truth and Desire   crumbles so easily   i count the seconds   and the minutes seem like hours to me   i count to seven   and the heat turns up another degree   i count eLeVeN for the   reasons why it happened to me so easily   i count eLeVeN   eLeVeN      "free me", she says, "heal me"   eLeVeN   i count eLeVeN when   you offer me the length of your hand   i count eLeVeN when you   caution me to strengthen my stand   i count eLeVeN when you   say that you're an innocent man--   oh spare me--baby--spare me   ah did you ever   stop to think about the need of a friend   and go easy on me, easy?!   i count eLeVeN when   my patience hits a quarter to three   i count eLeVeN   in the name of what's important to me   i count eLeVeN   strikes for you, for not believing in me   there ain't no heaven   when a promise doesn't mean anything   if all's forgiven   i count eLeVeN--   i count eLeVeN      don't save my soul   don't raise my hope   then take it away   don't make me whole   don't saveth my soul   just let me go   to rise up from the sleep i'm deep in   to walk out from   the dream i breathed in....home....home      one....two the colour of blue   lightening strikes in a moment of truth   three....four the night that i swore   i got nothing to prove -- you got nothin--no more   and if all's forgiven i count eLeVeN      thou shall not take a woman in vain   thou shall not take another woman   thou shall not put a promise to shame   thou shall not make a fool of no one   i count eLeVeN   thou shall not take a woman in vain   thou shall not take another woman   thou shall not shape a man into clay   thou shall not go on unforgiven   (i gotta count)   one....two the colour of blue   lightening strikes in a moment of truth   (and then i go)   three....four the night that i swore   i got nothing to prove -- you got nothin no more   six....seven is almost eLeVeN   you broke a word not easily given   eLeVeN   all's forgiven when i count eLeVeN