Who Fell Asleep In
(专辑: Romance Is Boring - 2010)
She turned her back on the
church and put all her faith in me, At the
back of the
chapel where I
taught her to screw and to blaspheme. We turned our backs to the
church with our trousers around our knees, While screaming the
scriptures, she said I
was her favourite heresy. In a
note I
read: "If you should go blind and deaf, I'll cleanse and I'll bathe you and I'll cook for you daily. I
will take a
dry ballpoint pen and trace on your chest All of the
same conversations that we have now in bed". I
don't mean to be selfish, but I
think I'd sooner just be dead. Behind the
tennis court, alongside the
river, not a
single live flower to see. This is the
one girl who woke up from all that and now falls asleep next to me. But I
swear now, every time that I
kiss her, she feels her god breathe on her shoulder. It pains me, but I'm sure she's still yours. She said she wanted a
sea burial, not grass and hypodermics to her hips. I
pruned the
ivy from your grandmother's tomb, More tender and careful than the
superstitious Ripped you from your mothers womb. In a
note I
wrote: "I think too much about the
end, But being around it made me feel like I'm coping. Now when I
view the
cemetery I
don't see headstones, I
see Rows of engraved milk teeth, hungry, waiting for me". And though I
am fearful, I
think I
just crave the
relief. Behind the
tennis court, alongside the
river, a
paper flower's still a
beautiful thing. This is the
one girl who woke up from all that and now falls asleep next to me. But I
swear now, every time that I
kiss her, she feels her god breathe on her shoulder. It pains me, but I'm sure she's still yours.