When You Come

Album: Temple of Low Men (1988)
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  • When you come across the sea
    Me like a beacon guiding you to safety
    The sooner the better now
    And when you come the hills

    Will breathe like a baby
    Pulled up heaving from the bottom of the ocean
    The sooner the better now
    When you come to cover me with your kisses

    Fresh like a daisy chained up in a lion's den
    I'll know you by the thunderclap
    Pouring like a rain of blood to my emotions
    And that is why

    I stumble to my knees
    And why underneath the heavens
    With the stars burning and exploding
    I know I could never let you down

    When you come like an iceberg float in darkness
    Smashing my hull sne me to the bottom of the sea
    I should know you better now
    When you come your majesty to entrap me

    Prince of light receding
    The sooner the better now
    And when you come to cover me
    With your kisses hard like armour

    The sooner the better now
    I'll know you by the thunderclap
    Pouring like a rain of blood to my emotions

    And that is why
    I stumble to my knees
    And why underneath the heavens
    With the stars burning and exploding
    I know I could never let you down

    She came out of the water
    Into my horizon
    Like a cumulo nimbus
    Coming in from a distance

    Burning and exploding
    Burning and exploding
    Like a slow volcano
    When you come

    Cover the ground with ashes
    When you come Writer/s: NEIL MULLANE FINN
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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Comments: 1

  • Martha from Knoxville, TnAlthough I have read Mr. Finn was referring to the second coming of Christ, I feel sure it refers to the sacred experience of marital lovemaking. I hope so, at least.
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