She said, You smell like winter Can I keep you forever How can you measure Your love for another
Love was the desert in my hands The driest lands of driest lands Stood stark naked and held us we The blackness in your eyes was stoning me And words were only dying baby's breath
This was written in the dark Where reason holds the reins Where the pills that made you numb Made you lighter than perfume And heavy as the hail
I was your purchaser of silence But the gas lit up the fireman I pleaded for love and painted smiles But the green grass in your eyes was awful light A kiss has killed our guiltiness Now I am singing in the dark Where reason holds the reins, the reins Where the thoughts that make me numb Make me sadder than I seem
Now I am singing in the dark Where reason holds the reins, the reins Where the thoughts that make me numb Make me sadder than I seem When I laugh at some dead face When I laugh at the empty space