pomegranate pomegranate like god s ankles like god s feet pomegranate smooth like god s skin smooth like god s bones fruit so wet my tongue laid upon she rises with the night she sleeps with the dawn pomegranate pomegranate the tooth is a stone and the eye is a pit nipples are seeds and the mind is the culprit milk blood flowing stardust sleeps water light glistens and the fireflies beat pomegranate pomegranate the pull of palms along the skin of dreams discotheque and light beams you know you re holding something you know you see bring it to me gimme seed pomegranate pomegranate time is a bastard it won t let me patch things up it s all firecracker paper and empty tin cups eyes to the sky and feet on the ground weighing all the consequences pound by pound pomegranate in the palm of my hand i was ruler of the kingdom i was ruler of the land