oh dark night
cold as iron
black as four a.m.
i am waiting here and now
i here the baby
oh burning log
oh soft sung hymn
let me say no ill thing
i will love everything
teach me to cease
believing in non believing

i don't know facts
i don't know anything
i only know how to be
a virgin
i only know that
the baby is me

How long i wrote of loving you
how long i longed to love you.
i knew you were kissing me but could
only keepy faith, keep faith until
i stopped believing.
and we must not say too much,
we must not speak too long or
else we will jinx it do not
step on the crack or i cannot
get you back
oh, no, take me to your temple
every old day your mercies
are brand new
and you are my gentle
father and devoted mother
giving birth to me

truth rises to meet me with the speed of light,
and tongue tied, I pray she will forgive me for
all the stories i put over her face.
truth comes quicker than lightning,
like the earth to meet the falling
penny and before i'm dashed i pray
she'll pity me
pity a fool who wills to
shape the earth to what
its not and make of
mysteries definition
pity us in our decisions,
whitewashing twice
to make the burning fire ice

I need to love every inch of your skin
more than you know it
i need to hallow every crevice
with my tongue and run
my lips over the smoothness
of your tattooed skin
let me in, let me in,
and love me wholly
or not at all