My only love
Did you know what I’d become?
That I’d be coming?
How all your reasons rung
True like a prophecy
Cruel like a curse
And I know it’s not your doing
But you heard the toxin first
My only love
Last night I crawled into a church
In pitch dark I said, «I want to believe»
And I clawed my way off of perches
Say, Lord,
If you’re really here
Please tell me
Is it your will that I can never again
Touch my only love?
Never
Never
And then I
Die on my only love
My only love
Why?
Well
Testemony rungs
From your mouth
Like a cobra from a basket
And you held a darker question there
You were too afraid
To ask it
Well, ask it!
Ask it!
I know where the answer lies
In the dust of bones and mountains
In the malevolent of time
From your birth day
To your deathbed
Don’t forget to tell your child
Love is rendered
Temporary
And forever is a lie
Oh, my only love
My only love
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why?