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 there were planes The shiny of pagan angels in our father's sky Every evening I would watch her hold the pillow Tight against hollows, her unholy child I was still a beggar shaking out my stolen coat Among the angry cemetery leaves 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 In a cake on our leather boots A feather floating down To where the birds had shit our empty chapel pews Every we found one more machine To mock our ever waning patience at the well Every evening she'd 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 angel rose to say \"My love is one to break every bended knee\"