You tore me apart And soon our bodies were enmeshed I felt so blessed To see your stained glass heart Beating through your paper flesh And I’ll pour every drop of my blood into you So you can rest Your sapphire eyes Were refracting a spectrum I couldn’t see And I felt free To see those colors Painting a gentler picture of me And I found myself falling slowly deep into a green and gold and blue And violet sea I want to absolve you Of all of our sins Our Mothers’, our fathers’ and mine Then maybe I could resolve you To stay in love with every love that’s ever been And I swear to god that I will hold on close to you ‘Til everything is fine ‘Cause you showed me Orion And I showed you the constellations on your skin You had been cryin’ Over a lie scrawled everywhere my eyes had been But I saw through it And read a story plain as day Spelled out in the freckles Splashed across your body like the Milky Way And they were staffed out on your body just like notes So we gathered them together and we wrote Some music we could play

Red-gold curls are splashed across my pillowcase Like Flower petals on an annivers’ry A pretty smile is slashed across her pretty face That says “I don’t know that this guy don’t deserve me” Tiny white hands are searching for a heartbeat In my sallow sunken chest Outside snow is falling in the dark street And I can’t seem to get no rest No I can’t sleep I can’t barely breathe So goodbye to Bolero my sentimental friend I don’t know when I will drop the needle on you again No more dancing in my bedroom to your horns and violins Though your drums beat on inside my chest, keeping time with all my sins Like a Celtic Catalina she is dancing Across the dusty floorboards of my memory Like a scarlet Proserpina she is planting Funerary flowers in all the holes inside of me Her hips are swaying in the moonlight Behind my eyelids in the dark I follow her braying in the lamplight Across the creek and through the park And then she’s gone Just like that it’s over, she’s gone So goodbye to Bolero my sentimental friend I don’t know when I will drop the needle on you again No more dancing in my bedroom to your horns and violins Though your drums beat on inside my chest, keeping time with all my sins

Please don't let down your hair, I'll only want to run my fingers through it And if your eyes should catch my stare Avert them before they see right through it We can not afford this Because it's dangerous when it's uninvited And it's soft and safe when it's unrequited So please don't look at me And tell me how you feel Please don't let me catch the blush That rushes to your face each time you smile Can't you see it tortures me Each time you ask to walk for just a while I was not prepared for this Because it's dangerous when it's uninvited And it's soft and safe when it's unrequited So please don't look at me and tell me You're in love Haven't got the decency to tell you That I'm not the one you're looking for I haven't got the common sense Not to show up at your door Tonight Because it's dangerous when it's uninvited And it's safer still when it's unrequited And I'm sorry love, but I just can't fight it Tonight So let me love you madly without warning And save "I'm sorry" for the morning I want my love to be the only thing adorning You And it's not fair to me when it's you that did it It's kind of beautiful, when we both admit And I the we'd be remiss to call this Less than love Because it's dangerous when it's uninvited And it's soft and safe when it's unrequited But please just look at me, and tell me You're in love

I remember lying in the dark Cautiously telling you about those other women About the lies in their eyes and the nights between their thighs I felt silently forgiven What a fool I was to ever think I could ever speak so candidly What a fool I was to ever think I could handle what you'd handed me Because I had tread water in the shallows before Scared to plumb the depths even if I wanted more But you wanted to drown, and when we wash up on the quays I'm scared I'll be all dried up with nothing left to say And you'll look at me And you'll say to me We're just extras Reading someone else's lines I'm all out of inclination And you haven't got the time Baby it's all been said and done There's no one left for us to be And I think that if you still love me Maybe you should set me free I remember drinking too much whiskey You had been drinking too much wine And you gently whispered to me That you wanted me to find Ways to worship you That no one had before So I smashed your stained glass windows And kicked in all your doors What a fool I'd been to think that I could ever stand before That bare and flawless altar What a fool I was to drink that sacrament you poured And think I would never falter Because I had tread water in the shallows before Scared to plumb the depths even if I wanted more But you wanted to drown, and when we wash up on the quays I'm scared I'll be all dried up with nothing interesting to say And you'll look at me And you'll say to me We're just extras Reading someone else's lines I'm all out of inclination And you haven't got the time Baby it's all been said and done There's no one left for us to be And I think that if you still love me Maybe you should set me free (x2) But while the orchestra plays dirges To an empty house Baby if you've got any urges I think you should let 'em out Let's shake the dust off of these rafters With nothing but the sound Of your love and your cries and laughter Before they bring that velvet curtain down