Inside You

Inside the doors are sealed to love

Inside my heart is sleeping

Inside the fingers of my glove

Inside the bones of my right hand

Inside it's colder than the stars

Inside the dogs are weeping

Inside the circus of the wind

Inside the clocks are filled with sand

Inside she'll never hurt me

Inside the winter's creeping

Inside the compass of the night

Inside the folding of the land

Outside the stars are turning

Outside the world's still burning

Inside my head's a box of stars I never dared to open

Inside the wounded hide their scars

Inside this lonesome sparrow's fall

Inside the songs of our defeat

They sing of treaties broken

Inside this army's in retreat

We hide beneath the thunder's call

Outside the rain keeps falling

Outside the drums are calling

Outside the flood won't wait

Outside they're hammering down the gate

Love is the child of an endless war

Love is an open wound still raw

Love is a shameless banner unfurled

Love's an explosion

Love is the fire of the world

Love is a violent star

A tide of destruction

Love is an angry scar

A violation a mutilation capitulation

Love is annihilation

Inside the failures of the light

The night is wrapped around me

Inside my eyes deny their sight

You'd never find me in this place

Inside we're hidden from the moonlight

We shift between the shadows

Inside the compass of the night

Inside the memory of your face

Outside the walls are shaking

Inside the dogs are waking

Outside the hurricane won't wait

Inside they're howling down the gate

Love is the child of an endless war

Love is an open wound still raw

Love is a shameless banner unfurled

Love's an explosion

Love is the fire at the end of the world

Love is a violent star

A tide of destruction

Love is an angry scar

The pain of instruction

Love is a violation a mutilation capitulation

Love is annihilation

I climb this tower inside my head

A spiral stair above my bed

I dream the stairs don't ask me why

I throw myself into the sky

Love me like a baby love me like an only child

Love me like an ocean love me like a mother mild

Love me like a father love me like a prodigal son

Love me like a sister

Love me like the world has just begun

Love me like a prodigy love me like an idiot boy

Love me like an innocent

Love me like your favorite toy

Love me like a virgin love me like a courtesan

Love me like a sinner love me like a dying man

Annihilate me infiltrate me incinerate me

Accelerate me mutilate me inundate me violate me

Implicate me vindicate me devastate me

Love me like a parasite love me like a dying sun

Love me like a criminal love me like a man on the run

Radiate me subjugate me incubate me recreate me

Demarcate me educate me punctuate me evaluate me

Conjugate me impregnate me designate me humiliate me

Segregate me opiate me calibrate me replicate me