Dogs of War

Looking back now
Within every thought I have delved, grubbed and mined
I threw sense to the wind
With a tender embrace
Oh how your walls gave way
Least for a while

And love?
It poured like a rain hurling hail with a flash-flooded ire
And I'd swear, for the sake of a dew-honeyed kiss
I'd have drowned in its pools

But desire left me with a cross to bear
A rumbling with a coronary twine
And it leaves me in a humble state in a spiral
As the world rotates
I know my heart will sing and grow
And I know yours aches and spills and overflows

Your love was dead
Or just a lie
A hollowed ode at a delicate time
Now, when I dream
Just the sight of you, graceful and near
Has me steered to the will of the night

And memories gather in a knot in a silent room that time forgot
Although it leaves me in a foreign place arranging photos
For today, I know that I loved you in an ancient way
I loved you like choirs would sing your name
But I lost you to your dogs of war
I lost you to the fog that wraps around and carries you away

And memories gather in a knot in a silent room that time forgot
Although it leaves me in a foreign place arranging photos
For today, I know that I loved you in an ancient way
I loved you like choirs would sing your name
But I lost you to your dogs of war
I lost you to the fog that wraps around

In the corner of some platitude
In the refuge of some callow view
You'd hide
And you'd leave me in a turbid state
In a quiet place to navigate alone
Still, I loved you in an ancient way
I loved you like choirs would sing

The soul of an angel in an endless storm
Had me haggling for a love to call my own
When I lost you to your dogs of war
I lost you to the dogs, the wolves
The hollow demons cluttered and disguised
In the hidden alcoves of your mind

And now, I lie here as the walls rotate
In a silent room
The dissipated glow from the moon, in all its golden grace
Leaps around this empty place

Although the wind is willing me to stay
My spirit longs to run away
So, I'll go to my buddies
All the journeymen
Where legends were forged by folly
And I know my name is known