Song For Zula

Some say love is a burning thing

That it makes a fiery ring

Oh, but I know love

As a fading thing

Just as fickle as a feather in a stream

See, honey, I saw love

You see, it came to me

It put its face up to my face so I could see

Yeah then I saw love disfigure me

Into something I am not recognizing

See, the cage, it called

I said: Come on in

I will not open myself up this way again

Nor lay my face to the soil

Nor my teeth to the sand

I will not lay like this for days now upon end

You will not see me fall

Nor see me struggle to stand

To be acknowledge by some touch

From his gnarled hands

You see, the cage, it called

I said: Come on in

I will not open myself up this way again

You see, the moon is bright in that treetop night

I see the shadows that we cast in the cold

Clean light

My feet are gold

My heart is white

And we race out

On the desert plains all night

See, honey, I am not some broken thing

I do not lay here in the dark waiting for thee

No my heart is gold

My feet are light

And I am racing out

On the desert plains all night

So some say love is a burning thing

That it makes a fiery ring

Oh, but I know love as a caging thing

Just a killer come to call

From some awful dream

O and all you folks, you come to see

You just stand there

In the glass looking at me

But my heart is wild

And my bones are steam

And I could kill you with my bare hands

If I was free