Oh lover, youāre a triumph, an undone calamity
As flagrantly forbidden as the fruit up Edenās tree
Iām coiled like a caliphate; your hand crawls up my thigh
The only of the seven sins you never can deny
Youāll never say you love me, though; you canāt admit you care
You wonāt admit you love me like the drowning love the air
You claim that I am nothing but the pride before the fall
And maybe I have fallen, but I love you, after all
For Iām a devil; I can raise, then raze, than radiate
I am a devil; I bleed black as ichor soaked in hate
I am a devil; I deal in the secret side of pain
Renunciation of salvation, dreamers down the drain.
And youāre an angel; you protect and guard all wondrous things
You are an angel; you can rest the wide world on your wings
You are an angel; you give the ineffable a voice
Youāre absolutes and absolution; Iām the thrill of choice.
Oh, lover, you are swords and crowns, crucifictitious tears,
Youāre covenants and convents and ecclesiastic years,
Evangelist, avenger, Jonah in the wailing wall
Pour plagues into the populace and kill the first sons, all
You want to say you love me like all demons love despair
I want to say I love you like all angels love their prayer
Oh lover, Iāll prostrate myself and never cut my hair,
Oh lover, I have loved you since before the stars were there
You are an angel; you can lead the righteous in attack
I am a devil; I can lead the wretched fighting back,
I live to love you; it cleaves like a comet ācross my soul
You incarnation of creation I cannot control
Though I cannot be holy, when Iām with you, I am whole.