Lips Like Ether

You slipped into my bloodstream through a severed vein
Anaestheised the pain in a heart of lead
Now I know that you're not heaven sent
Maybe what you said wasn't what you meant
It went straight to my head

And in your room, the streetlight
Was shimmering like a magic lantern
And I thought I must be there

With your lips like ether
Leaving me blind
You take me to a higher place
Leave me behind
I feel that I'm on hallowed ground

I'd never allow anyone to shelter me
I chewed the words till they sounded like lies
But then you came, kicked down my door
And I saw you shine like a lighthouse on the shore
The sunrise in your smile

And somewhere in the silence
I rise above the fear, the violence
You let me be rich for a while

With your lips like ether
Leaving me blind
You take me to a higher place
Leave me behind
I feel that I'm on hallowed ground

Though yours is not the air that I breathe
Though I'm lost to all the beauty you see
I want to believe
I want to believe

You slipped into my bloodstream through a severed vein
Anaestheised the pain in a heart of lead
I was hungry, I was weak
But at the time what seemed so oblique, I
I won't forget

Sometimes when I'm with you
I feel nothing bad could happen to me
But I know that is not true

With your lips like ether
Leaving me blind
You take me to a higher place
Leave me behind
I feel that I'm on hallowed ground

Oh no, no, no
Your lips like ether
Lips like ether
Leaving me blind, leaving me blind
Take me to a higher place
Leave me behind
Oh, you leave me behind, yeah, yeah