Smoke

Smoke plumed from her lips as her whimpers

Shivered with the night birds' song

Curled up under his black leather jacket

She fell asleep to the mating calls

With the sleeves wrapped around her waist

He held her in a dream

His wounds wept when she begged him to stay

While the cigarette hissed on the sheets, he said

"I'll never leave"

When the tears soak through your tattered hair

"I'll never leave

And you feel like dying I'll be there

"I'll never leave"

Close your violet eyes and stay with me

"I'll never leave"

Out in the fog between the evergreens

"And I'll never leave"

"I feel like I was created to suffer

Sade had Justine and God has me"

He said, "Thought your God had Job for all that"

"Yeah, but Job was redeemed

And no matter how hard I pray

It's just more misery"

His breath burned on her hips when he whispered

"You've got a savior in me"

'Cause I'll never leave

When the flames lick hot between your legs

"I'll never leave"

Hide in sleep and feel my tongue instead

"I'll never leave"

Tried for countless lives to set you free

"I'll never leave"

Don't you resist this fire, come with me

'Cause I'll never leave

We'll drift out to the sea

Like mist between the trees

And start swimming

To the coast you've seen in vivid dreams

And inked in your arm from memory

Bound to me, you'll learn what pleasure, pain can bring

Baby, you can suffer there in peace

And, child, You'll never leave

Sleep through the sirens

Sleep through the sirens