Up In The Rafters

Lyrics

I want to love you like the monster loves a flower Disarming as a bird flying backwards And my heart is a pomegranate And how long have I ached for your hands on my stomach? I want to love you like the monster loves the flower Tenderly I want to know you like the clock knows the hour I want to see you with both my eyes forward In the fields of rye and up in the rafters Hungrily And oh, to know the nape of your neck: It would be the length of my whole self To swoon if for to stretch beneath a fleshy ground Peacefully Into a blood-red sea In the wax of a whale Oh, meet me down there, deep down Where I am dark and pale This longing I inherit, how it makes me shameful This armor how I wear it 'till I can no longer And all the while in your blue so sallow As bitter as the snake that craftily crallows On the cracked tongue of the quake in the shadows Silently I am a ribcage, I'm a sailor, I'm an arrow I am a monster with the wings of a blind sparrow And I want to touch you like the sea touches the soil I want to hold you like the milk holds the spoil Sing to me Cling to me And what of this cacophonous - these broken strings? And what of this, the blood red kiss, the beast in the sea? I'll hush it now and I will sing it songs to put it to sleep And leave it there without a care that it might know a dream