Love in a Song

Love in a song, the only thing they said I could rely on

To lay my bones down, lay down boy you're home again

The lamp, the locket, candle and the pen

Love in a song, I've written it before it won't take very long

The nib will dig a hole and beckon forth once more

To wrap me in its warm and bolt the door

Someone's singing to you, in a song

A mantra often told, a cross to lay upon

The strings that tie me softly pry my hands from you

To steal away before the night is through

Love in a song, I stand among the crowd prepared to sing along

The dusty air congeals, a lump that seals my truth

But I won't hear it anymore

Beyond the steeple, she waits for me

In her robes, like a ghost

In awful silence, she screams to me

It must be love