You've gone from perfect to divine Gone from perfect to divine Time heals And time forgets Your pots pans shoes all your garbage And your photographs Had been thrown into the street And I stood back in shock Cause now your shit it looked Lost without you I broke a window busted your steering lock And I cleared out of town Without you
I said that time heals And time forgets But time arrived at motel ceiling fans That just hang there above Your empty head After the rent is paid And your heart's gone dead Your friends are gone You have a hunted face Outside in the heaving fields Are draped as heavy as lead Where the dead wood aches For reprieved from a fate That seems so fleeting at a distance Until that distance is tamed Time does not heal And it doesn't forget It just drowns you when you're thirsty and you're lame You kneel to drink the water And the water is flame
Time heals And time forgets It's doing fine without you Your radiator still overheats But now your starter motor Just refuses to turn I tell you nothing's really changed But I am not the same And you take Up all my time You take Up all my time You've gone from perfect to divine You've gone from perfect to divine
I never understood Although you tried Tried to explain While you were alive What had turned the face I'd loved Into a stranger's I'm staring up into A perfect night Everything is so wrong But the time is right And for the first time now I'm looking right at you I am here now And it does not have a name You kneel to drink the water And the water is flame