Shivers

Time slips away

Your honeyed words leave craters in the day

Oh, time's drifting away

As you blink, the nighttime follows

Chasing your tender tomorrow

Oh, such a kiss

Lips like fists, two bloody hues

I'll pray each peck leaves a bruise

Oh, put me in your palm and squeeze

Axe and shape my memory

Clutch me like a rosary, and rip off my jeans

Lover, let's make history

We'll melt, and glue, and stick, and weave

'Til it's no longer you or me

Just bodies spilling breathlessly

Heroine, heroine, where've you been?

I'm still catching up on all that wasted oxygen

Heroine, heroine, let me in

I can show you rivers where the waters never still

Walked you back from Merchant's corner

Rushing over beat brick mortar

Forking though the city like a street

Gentle beauty in plate armour

Watched you peel the steel from 'round you

Back revealing beauty as yet unseen

I was falling, falling

As you giggled through the din

Put me in your palm and squeeze (She sends shivers through the night)

Axe and shape my memory (Shakes the stars)

Clutch me like your rosary (In twenty-thousand skies)

And rip off my jeans

Lover, let's make history (She's the rib and she's the spine)

We'll melt, and glue, and stick, and weave (See my world)

'Til it's no longer you or me (Shining in her eyes)

Just bodies spilling breathlessly

(She sends shivers through the night) I could feel it then

(Shakes the stars of twenty-thousand skies) I think it's better this way

(She's the rib and she's the spine) I could feel it then

(See my world shining in her eyes) Time slips, we drift, I fall