Rhinemaidens

I met you in the middle of a raincloud

I had just received the final blow, knockout

You, my smelling salt by way the sea

Oh, it seemed, as though I'd finally re-attached this phantom limb

Twitching into place where it had always been

Pins and needles felt like cotton

Laugh because you know you're free for the time being

In the dark, I can find my way because I feel the sparks

Surging from your fingers just like kind remarks

Telling me the day is coming soon

Would you be my Freia with her apples, or the seventh seal

Signalling the rapture and a call to kneel

"No" we say, cause it's not coming

I left you in the middle of a dustcloud

Hoping then to lose you like a ship in fog

But palms across the desert crossed the sea

Were my last words not quite as sobering as my epitaph

Faint hymns and unuttered oaths, they line the path

But I'd like to bypass ruin

Let's sing songs and spite the devil, spite the devil, spite him.