Wicked Blood

We met in the east

Poured in like the flood

You're the whispering kind

Dark sapphire blood

A vision of veils

All shimmery white

Like a backdrop of sails

All a'glow from the light

Of the wonder behind that stormy night

In the mountain song and the blue jay's call

My heartbeat flows in crystal waterfalls

You're so beautiful in your elegant bed

You'd have my blues

For your Nantucket reds

I'd wait in the dark

Balanced on the thread

So I'd wait in the dark

Balanced on this thread

And under the church light

You stand there

With your wicked blood and your curls

Yeah, under the church light

You stand there in your fur and your pearls

These lines were here

Long before we came 'round

These lines were here

And there's an ember in the rafters

And it's gonna bring this whole thing down

In the neon mist

I heard you breathe

An exquisite sound

Some secret symphony

Your silken skin

My fingers rough

In the midnight dim

We went home and touched

Beneath the chandeliers

In your persian's dust

Beneath your chandeliers

And your persian's dust

And under the church light

You stand there

With your wicked blood and your curls

Yeah under the church light

You stand there

In your fur and your pearls

These lines were here

Long before we came around

Yeah, these lines were here

And there's an ember in the rafters

An ember in the rafters

There's an ember in the rafters

An ember in the rafters

There's an ember in the rafters

An ember in the rafters

There's an ember in the rafters

An ember in the rafters

Yeah, there's an ember in the rafters

An ember in the rafters

There's an ember in the rafters

An ember in the rafters

And there's an ember in the rafters

And it's gonna bring this whole thing down