Till the Morning

When I get off the train and I crawl in your bed

The past rolls away

A lifetime of dread travels through all of the fables I've read and they don't come back until the morning

If I knew where my mind went tucked beneath your thighs

I'd go there more often

I'd never arise

Like the straw man collector your words hypnotize

But I won't check my pockets till the morning

Your lips they surround me in a halo of dreams

They show me things my eyes never could've seen

Like the tombstone raider who shined on Gallali

Whose candle burnt brightly till the morning

The law of God and man is in a state of disrepair

Shallow is the grave, its headstone bare

The long forgotten child of our lady of air

Who couldn't hear the robins sing that morning

My fingers they touch you and fill your eyes with song

My spirit tells my body that my spirit don't belong

But the right is far more righteous in a world of wrong

And the night is pitch black until the morning

The saints who are slaughtered are alive like you or me

Their prisons were the world—their home eternity

Their bodies bound and beaten but their spirit proud and free

But are we left crippled in our mourning?

When I get off the train and I crawl in your bed

The past rolls away

A lifetime of dread travels through all of the fables I've read and they don't come back until the morning