Love Is Surrender

Patience with the body Untying scars & letting them go Selves afflicted by crises Identity; you reap what I sow Love is surrender Basking in the light of cathode ray dim nights Love is surrender of a heart once turned to stone to render our tender flesh & bone to dust Fire walk with me Into the dark I long to see Love is surrender Burning old lives down Remember; leave those days to drown Love is surrender of a heart once turned to stone to render our tender flesh & bone to dust

Threatening skies are gaining on you Clouds full of promises / some of them true Set to pour hand-me-down kisses on your lips Gumball machine rings floating like burning ships Run Run while you can You shouldn't have to cry for love Sheets come down to soak you through Leaves you nothing but black & blue Gold-dulled glint in the poison light They don't know because they don't want to know Run Run while you can You shouldn't have to cry for love Run Run while you can You shouldn't have to cry for love Run Run while you can You shouldn't have to die for love

In the last light of day Sun setting on a wounded charade Killing overtime to keep you alive In the shadow of a former life Pale equinox soaked in lye Draining the future one day at a time Always A long, long way away Pleading with fate for your big break Steady diet of a first heartache Diner dancing, plaid skirt, alight Can't just be easy for a girl like you When all your friends are burning blue Trouble wrapped in twirling plaid tonight Always A long, long way away

(cover of the song written by David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti) Just you & I Together, forever, in love In love, we go strolling together In love, we go strolling forever Just you & I Together, forever, in love

They walked you both to the river You left yourself behind Walked in the night together for future selves to find And adore for your innocence The way you were back then Out on a limb with your best friend It's breaking, she's falling in She's slipping away She's slipping away into a night that knows no end Her diary says she loved you Enough to push you away Grit your teeth and follow Where soulless hunters play Hunting youth / and shaping hearts To coffins of teen years, caskets lined with dreams She's slipping away She's slipping away into a night that knows no end

Will you take me away? Somewhere we'll never be found In everything, I see you I want to hold your hand Everywhere, I feel you It is happening again Everything is falling apart Where are you? Would you come hold me today? Into the evening In a place away from the world Where no one can see It is happening again Everything is falling apart Where are you?

Can't stand the smell of this burning home Falling down / smoldering crown of pain, misfortune & wisdom come too soon The love, the light can't reach you here The shame, the weight will disappear There is only time in this place Sweet girl, sweet child Did they know you at all? Busied hands in your affairs You fall faster than light You fall faster than time You just wanted to get away Anywhere, safe to say you didn't know What this would cost / the life you lost No other way There's a girl in your bed & another one in your head Her hands; meanwhile With the ring she's safe From the man from this place Beware, beware, beware... No stranger to danger in the hands of men Isolation; the value of a secret sin Bleeding heart on the pages of Flesh World It will all be over soon Did they know you at all? Busied hands in your affairs You fall faster than light You fall faster than time Where will you go? Will I be alone? 25 years or forever, I'll wait for you