The Castle Builders

Now speak of anger

Forget all the fears you've kept about love and sex and death and faith

Erased or swinging sweet from around her neck and between her breasts

Let every lonely body finally break its fear of flesh and say

How strange it must have been back when we shook at the sight of sweat

Let our worries wander out like water streaming from a spring

And sing of all the things our heads have failed to ruin

There's so much they have failed to ruin yet

Bright as lightning

Loud as thunder

We'll move all the hurt aside to let love sustain our passions

And move up and onward

We are not our losses

We are only the extent to which we love

So build a home for your family

And build a castle for your friends

Now set their beds with sheets and blankets

And keep them safe until the end

I've felt the damage and burn from the fallout

My love failed but theirs prevailed

My friends, I'm only flesh and bone

But I won't let you die alone

So leave our hearts at the foot of the mountain

Let our burdens be locked in the stone

If you will help me roll it upward

I won't let you die alone

I see a beauty springing up from the earth and out our hearts

For all the bad that seems to plague us

I swear to you there's good

Oh no, I won't let you die alone

My love, I will not let you die alone

They say that death is not a problem, it's a promise

I can only say for sure that when it makes your bed

I'll kiss your head goodnight

So speak of all the love we lost and what it cost us

Left us, beg our breath to stop

And we moved on and we were strong

We stayed bright as lightning

We sang loud as thunder

We moved ever forward

We are not our failures

We are love