My Childish Bride

歌詞

Have you ever seen a map laid flat, four corners pinned back, all the lines and the legend in black So clear that you feared it was nearly all in your mind? And the phrase that fell from her lips left a rip from the top of your shoulders to the point of your hip And the feeling that you get is if God exists he's really unkind But it's not what you want to say when you're losing All the meaning's lost in the choosing: the right side, the wrong side, the side that's been winning Forget the words, look back to the beginning My childish bride, Oh how I miss your face Sometimes, I see my life slip by across your face There's an ocean on land. There's a plan. There's a plan There's a fifty-foot tower running power over sand There was a city on a hill. It was a thrill but the lights are all gone Now we stare at each other like a sister to a brother, like a pusher to a shover Like a secret to a cover, like a lover to a lover under covers with the stereo on But it's not what you said to me when you were leaving Oh this mass of bodies, we're heaving the right way, the wrong way, the way that they taught us Forget your words, remember they got us My childish bride, Oh how I miss your face Sometimes, I see my life slip by across your face Tell me are you real? Do you feel? Do you steal these moments you reveal with those eyes that can't conceal? Were you wronged? Was your song just some clever thing that you made up? 'Cause the words are just right and I could listen all night I could whisper. I could bite. I could write. I could write. I could sing. I could cling There's not a single thing I'd ever give up But it's not what you meant to me when you were leaving Oh this mass of bodies all heaving the right way, the wrong way, the way that they taught us Forget yourself, remember they bought us My childish bride, Oh how I miss your face Sometimes, I see my life slip by like a taste of death