Love was promise made of smoke In a frozen copse of trees A bone cold and older than our bodies Slowly floating in the sea Every morning there planes The shiny blades of pagan angels in father's sky Every evening I would watch her hold the pillow Tight against her hollows, her unholy child I was still a beggar shaking out my stolen coat Among the cemetery leaves When they caught king beneath the borrowed car Righteous, drunk, and fumbling for the royal keys
Love was our father's and sewn like a shank In a cake on our leather boots A beautiful feather floating down where the birds had shit our empty chapel pews Every morning we found one more machine To mock our ever waning at the well Every evening she'd descend the mountain stealing socks And singing something good all their horses fell Like a snake within the wilted garden wall I'd hint to her every possibility While with his gun, the pagan rose to say \"My love is one made to break every bended knee\"