Love a 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 were The shiny blades of pagan angels in our father's sky Every evening I would watch her hold the pillow Tight against her hollows, unholy child was still a beggar shaking out my stolen coat Among the angry cemetery leaves When they caught the king beneath the borrowed car Righteous, drunk, and for the royal keys
Love was our father's flag and sewn like a shank In a cake on our 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 singing something good where all their horses fell a snake within the wilted garden wall I'd hint to her every possibility with his gun, the pagan angel rose to say \"My love is one made to break every bended knee\"