Touch Is Milk

In a dark hour when the fairies' eyes are closed
I wish that you could see it
When the juniper proposes to the snow
As she lays her icy glow
Around his dusty, broken branches
Breaking softly in some cold December morning long ago
And gentleness is a nice additive to love
But trust is what I need to feel tonight

Baby am I seemly insincere?
Can you trust in me, my tears?
And believe that truth and being true are what I hold most dear?
Cause touch is milk, but trust is meat,
Faith is a pitch black four-way street
And if I signal will you signal back so I can calm your fears?

Sapling cadavers tell each other how to be
Though they're young and fragile
And the springtime they may never live to see
And me, my roots are plunged into a riverbank of sand
And it's winding like a rusty music box
Between the river and the land
Though snowy water may wash us both away
Tell me that you will hold me till the tide

Darling, I am twenty, you're eighteen,
Our lives are in a later spring
The blooming flowers can look menacing
Because they are unknown
But just believe that I'll be true,
That there will be no losing you
And I will wait,
If you can wait then I will wait upon you too

You say we're young,
Too young to plan ahead
Baby I say so is this whole world

And when the crackling fire collides with snow flying
And God's anger is kindling
For the splitting earth and popcorn kernel sky
I hope you see if we keep on the road we're on
Eventually we'll be each other's anchors
When all this is going down
I know it all, it all seems so far away,
But life's a frosty winter vapor Kt

Babe you must believe that we can be
If we can ever truly see
Burning your heart at stake is painful but
The truth it is set free
And if we break each other's hearts,
Or the old road tears us apart
We'll know we really knew each other
With all our hurts and warts and scars