I Saw Love

I saw love she was kestrel backed

Big on theory short on fact

When she sang her voice cracked

Ah ha ha

There in her beauty with her eyes blacked

Body braced for impact

I followed where the tears tracked

Ah ha ha

Ah ha ha

Where walls stood witness derelict

To petrol rage and Kristallnacht

Bright windows all broken, house ransacked

Ah ha ha

Ah ha ha

Ah ha ha

That held the knife that cut the cord

Wrapped cosy in the lies we bought

Crowed loud as if anointed by her sword

While she aloof seemed lost in thought

Then turned upon us tiger clawed

Leapt the fences hope she don’t get caught

Then entered in that stood before

The threshold of her open door

Rats inside the grain store

Ah ha ha

Ah ha ha

She found me leaning circumspect

Bent my eyes toward the prospect

And she said

My fate is in the hands of a total stranger

Whose only map is a blank sheet of paper

Now my fate is in the hands of a total stranger

Whose only map is a blank sheet of paper

Now my fate is in the hands of a total stranger

Whose only map is a blank sheet of paper

I saw love she was kestrel backed

One part theory one part fact

When she sang her voice cracked

Ah ha ha

Ah ha ha

Followed where the tears tracked