Wearing the Robes of Bible Black

Sleep sadless, man
Love you too, sadless one
Like a birth upon breath
Like a pulse upon pulp
Like a narrating blood

Keep little the promise, but less the lie
From down this mud to way up sky
Let light and love be keep to the test
Short supply never enter the nest

Sleep with eyes rolled back
So tongue might taste dream water and not the waste
Not to turn when time awake
Back from luck to the same mistake

Yeah, I'm wearing the robes of bible black
And I'm torn to shreds from self attack
I'm a-lingering long when I'm turning back
Burying faint heart by the railroad track

Sippin' a breath between coughs of rage
Pulls from a pocket a single ripped phonebook page
And lets it go from a faint heart grave
And a wind, like a host, introduces it to sage

I'm wearing the robes of bible black
And I'm torn to shreds from surprise attack
I'm a-lingering long when I'm lingering back
Burying faint heart by the railroad track

Faint heart will rise from track to trail
When the storm will ease and clear skies prevail
It'll find the one with the heartless wail
It'll slide back in where love grew stale

I'm wearing the robes of bible black
And I'm torn to shreds from self attack
I'm a-lingering long when I'm lingering back
Burying faint heart by the railroad track

I'm wearing the robes of bible black
I'm wearing the robes of bible black
Bible black, beautiful
Burying treasure along this railroad track