Here Is Where

The city sleeps but we're awake

We spirit home before the break

Of dawn upon the streets

In which we live and love and breathe

And half the high-rises have turned to dust

The fairfields now are scrap and rust

The sirens sing, the west wind howls

What once was here was holy ground

Not now

And I confess that I've lately been a mess

So I wonder where you'll sleep tonight

And decide it would be best

To stay out late and not come home

To wander kelvingrove alone

I'm young enough to still believe

Some faded glory might just shelter me

And here is where my whole world turns

And here is where my heart returns

And here is where I've sworn and cursed

And here is where I kissed you first

In amber light shot through with rain

I swear I don't intend to waste a syllable

Each word is blessed

The truth must blaze through every single breath

Unbending, stark

A lit steeple against unending dark

And someone sprayed this on the wall:

"I love it here"

I don't at all

Do you live for the love you've found?

Some sad slow song to lay you down

And still your weary worried heart

Throw light upon your darkest dark

That unsung psalm burst into flame

That wild black night that calls your name

O river, take my bloodied bones

The toll can have my heart to hold

Do you live for the loves you've lost?

Do they linger in your thoughts?

And ever in your fitful sleeps

(In your wild and dark imaginings)

Do you ever really dream of me?

And if you did what would that mean?

O river, take my bloodied bones

The toll can have my heart to hold

Unbending, stark

A lit steeple against unending dark

O river, take my bloodied bones

The toll can have my heart to hold