Blooming beyond us like the promise of July

But for all he's worth He still shatters always on her earth The cause of every tear she'd ever weep

I feel as useful as dirt, unreal unearth

I remember the view, streetlights in the dark blue The moment I knew I'd no choice but to love you

I think of loss and I can only think of you I couldn't measure it

And it's worth it, it's divine I have this some of the time

When I was kissing on my baby And she put her love down soft and sweet In the low lamp light I was free Heaven and hell were words to me

So we're slaves to any semblance of touch Lord we should quit but we love it too much

There is no sweeter innocence Than our gentle sin

Be still, my foolish heart Don't ruin this on me

If I was born as a blackthorn tree I'd wanna be felled by you Held by you Fuel the pyre of your enemies

You and I burned out our steam Chasing someone else's dream

When I was a man, I thought it ended When I knew love's perfect ache But my peace has always depended On all the ashes in my wake

Once I had wondered what was holding up the ground I can see that all along, love, it was you all the way down

My head was warm My skin was soaked I called your name 'til the fever broke

Planes and trains and cars Carve their lines into a curve-like blades All I get to are mistakes half-made

Baby, there's something wretched about this Something so precious about this

Joy, disaster, come unbound here I'll deny me none while I'm allowed With all things above the ground

Carve their lines into a curve-like blades All I get to are mistakes half-made

Happy to lie back watch it burn and rust We tried the world, good God it wasn't for us

I wouldn't fall for someone I thought couldn't misbehave

One time we would want for nothing (one time we had it all, love) We knew what our love was worth (when we had nothing) Now we're always missing something (I miss when) I miss when we did not need much

And I wish I could say That the river of my arms have found the ocean

To share the space with simple living things Infinitely suffering, but fighting off like all creation The absence of itself, anyway

There's an art to life's distraction Somehow escape the burning weight the art of scraping through

I'd no idea on what ground I was founded All of that goodness is going with you now Then when I met you, my virtues uncounted All of my goodness is going with you now

Sit in and watch the sunlight fade Honey, enjoy, it's gettin' late There's no plan, there's no hand on the rein As Mack explained, there will be darkness again

Her eyes look sharp and steady Into the empty parts of me Still my heart is heavy With the hate of some other mans beliefs

Someone's frightened boy waves her on She offers a mother's smile and soon she's gone

And the nights were as dark as my baby And half as beautiful too

The only heaven I'll be sent to Is when I'm alone with you

Like fire weeping from a Cedar tree Know that my love would burn with me We'll live eternally

But still the mind, rejectin' this new empty space Fills it with something or someone No closer could I be to God Or why he would do what he’s done

The future's so bright it's burning

Funny how true colours shine in darkness And in secrecy

Something isn't right, babe I keep catching little words but the meaning's thin

I just think about my baby I'm so full of love, I could barely eat

Though I've handled the wood, I still worship the flame As long as amber of ember glows All the would that I'd loved is long ago

They'd find us in a week When the cattle'd show fear After the insects have made their claim After the foxes have known our taste I'd be home with you, I'd be home with you

But the gateway to the world Was still outside the reach of him Would never belong to angels Had never belonged to men

I will not be great, but I'm grateful to get through The feeling came late, I'm still glad I met you

We'll float away, but if we fall I only pray, don't fall away from me

To the strand, a picnic plan For you and me A rope in hand, for your other man To hang from a tree