I never liked the way you loved So devious, so dated But still I fasted like a monk And prayed to see you naked.

I'd see you hurting everyone A government of suffering I'd tell myself 'Thy Will Be Done My will it counts for nothing'

I drank a lot I lost my job I lived like nothing mattered And you, you never came across You never even answered

It was a blind and broken time And kindness was forbidden I guess I tried to hitch a ride From acid to religion

But every guiding light was gone And every good direction The book of love I read was wrong It had a happy ending

But when the system had been shocked Beyond all recognition The simple things that I'd forgot Resumed their sweet position

I thought I saw you with a child I thought I heard you weeping And all the garden round you wild And safely in your keeping

I don't recall what happened next I kept you at a distance But tangled in the knot of sex My punishment was lifted

Your remedies beneath my hand Your fingers in my hair The kisses on our lips began That ended everywhere

And when I gathered up to leave You drew me to your side To be as Adam was to Eve Before the Great Divide

And fastened here we cannot move Except to one another We spread and drown as lilies do From nowhere to the centre

And here I cannot lift a hand To trace the lines of beauty But lines are traced and love is glad To come and go so freely

And here no sin can be confessed No sinner be forgiven It's written that the law must rest Before the law is written

And here the silence is erased The background all dismantled Your beauty cannot be compared No mirror here, no shadow

But now it comes, a grazing wind Aimless and serene It wounds me as I part your lips It wounds us in between

And now the wars can start anew The torture and the laughter We cry aloud as humans do Before the truth, and after

I don't know how it's going to end You always left that open But oh, you are the only friend I never thought of knowing