Humbled In Love   





Do you remember all of those pledges  

That we pledged in the passionate night  

Ah they're soiled now, they're torn at the edges  

Like moths on a still yellow light  

No penance serves to renew them  

No massive transfusions of trust  

Why not even revenge can undo them  

So twisted these vows and so crushed  

And you say you've been humbled in love  

Cut down in your love  

Forced to kneel in the mud next to me  

Ah but why so bitterly turn from the one  

Who kneels there as deeply as thee  

 

Children have takes these pledges  

They have ferried them out of the past  

Oh beyond all the graves and the hedges  

Where love must go hiding at last  

And here where there is no description  

Oh here in the moment at hand  

No sinner need rise up forgiven  

No victim need limp to the stand  

 

And you say you've been humbled in love...  

 

And look dear heart, look at the virgin  

Look how she welcomes him into her gown  

Yes, and mark how the stranger's cold armour  

Dissolves like a star falling down  

Why trade this vision for desire  

When you may have them both  

You will never see a man this naked  

I will never hold a woman this close  

 

And you say you've been humbled in love...