You thought you could outstrip the sunlight

So you wasted away in the blue.

We knew you would have to fall sometime

if you kept telling us what was true.

(So...these lyrics came out kinda bitter! Yikes.  :)

Your love was a noose

Where I hung my head

My teeth all came loose

I don’t know where I’ve come from

But I know where I’ve been.

And I won’t ask for redemption

But I know that I’ve sinned.

The old gods doubled over

Spiraled in like lyres

Whispered their directives

Issued the wind.

They weathered betrayal

I spent the night dreaming in your lonely bed

And wintered in dirges you sang for the dead

I’ve drunk you in deep as the devil

I’ve eaten your wor...

And we were born out of summer

With the heat of hope and bright wonder

Like fireflies burning the grass

The embers of us rising, new, into the night.