A Love Song Seven Ways

It starts so early now

The sun has gone to Birkenau

As shadows creep across your brow

I love you just the same

These freakish holidays

That make us act like renegades

A bloodbath at the Ice Capades

Just makes me love you

More than I should ever have been allowed

In a world of candy guns

Sweet as demons and the candy apple sun

Think it quiet but then don't sing it loud

To a world of number ones

Pointed skyward at the candy apple sun

It always used to snow

The winter's here like Buffalo

Now it feels like Bamako

I love you seven ways

You wear those baby tees

With pictures of atrocities

You stared at me, oh, honey, please

I still love you

More than I should ever have been allowed

In a world of candy guns

Sweet as demons and the candy apple sun

Think it quiet but then don't sing it loud

To a world of number ones

Pointed skyward at the candy apple sun

With a fire of an outrageous crowd

As it burns the stadium

Swinging torches in the candy apple sun

Someday we'll be halfway to the here and now

But 'til then, let's have some fun

Licking letters in the candy apple sun

You claim your joints and knees

Predict weather catastrophes

Because I worship how you breathe

I love you seven ways