The Lady Is Risen

She loves full and true, as a fighting bequest

She was given her earth by a sea come to rest

And the children she bore loved this truly too much

Calloused pride come to die in our hands as we touch

And so soften me now, let me take as it's given

For the wind's started up and the lady is risen

Is it snowing in London and warm in your bed

Have I nothing to give you, I'm cold in your head

But you're burning in mine, come to rest off the train

In the silence you've gone and the train comes again

It's been years since I saw you, I've learned how to live

And the love's back in swing and the lady is risen

Tell me where have the saints gone, oh where is the pull

Are they flourished in times that were guarded with wool

You know limbless they marched till they fell off the map

Are you sick of them falling like crumbs on your lap

You once told me that this isn't all that there is

And the band started up and the lady is risen

You know life isn't always like the end of your novels

All things might wind up but they always unravel

And I'll watch you with eyes that can see I can see

That you're too good at pulling that wool over me

And I'll fight but there's nothing here I find to resist

And the winds started up and the lady is risen