Bridegroom

Late into the summer, when I cast back my mind
On the rivers of the spring, there's a crack in the air
And a house in the pine with a body to find
And a hole in the wall at which my heart does stare

I was married to a child in the many joys of May
"Frankly now mister, you've never been a young girl
I know you won't get it, I know you'll ask anyway"
Maybe if I'd listened she'd be above the crepe myrtle

The heart wants what it wants, its deceitful above all
I longed for that house, for a bride, and for a reason
The brave man kills with a sword, with a word kills the small
There's a song in the air, and this hearts out of season

You can call it whatever, call it mercy or call it evil
But our lives were over when we crossed the threshold
There lay a green lawn and a sky filled with diesel
Despair hits like rice, and your shoulder's shivering cold

It lasted a few years, while I was good to you
Now chains linked in gold, they keep up inside
I'm gonna break out tonight, I know what to do
I am a brave man, man of my word, I'll never lie

As the lights flash with red and they flash with blue
All around this house the one I built for you
And in this corner where I know I'm the one
who put you down with my cold and black gun

Now I wait in the thicket and wait in the hollows
With a belly of dread and head full of voices
Nothing to do but meet the god of my tomorrows
And he'll bring me to bare on all of my choices

I'd say it to his face just like I'd say it her mother
How I spared her a life of boredom and frustration
You know, we're all born to die, one after the other
It's a hard life of evil, and of constant stagnation

There's nothing I can do, we kill what we love
A coward in years, and a brave man in minutes
As the air left her throat, she cooed like a dove
Call it mercy, call it evil, its all the same - isn't it

She called me good, that's what it said in the Bible
Her heart's cool gaze forgot, I'm leper not a prophet
When Lazarus died Jesus found he may not be able
To hold back tears for what's in life and death's pocket

For God so loved the world that He left it completely
The bride has hung herself in her wedding dress
For I so loved you baby that I killed you sweetly
And saved you from a life a misery and being a lepress