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