Love was a promise made of smoke In a frozen copse of trees bone cold and older than our bodies Slowly floating in the sea Every morning were planes 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 still a beggar out my stolen coat Among the angry cemetery leaves When they caught the king beneath the borrowed car Righteous, drunk, and fumbling 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 one machine To mock our ever waning patience at the well Every evening she'd descend the mountain stealing socks And something good where all their fell Like a snake within the wilted garden wall I'd hint to her every possibility While with gun, the pagan angel rose to say \"My love is one made to break every bended knee\"