Inside

Inside the doors are sealed to love

Inside my heart is sleeping

Inside the fingers of my glove

Inside the bones of my right hand

Inside it′s colder than the stars

Inside the dogs are weeping

Inside the circus of the wind

Inside the clocks are filled with sand

Inside she′ll never hurt me

Inside the winter′s creeping

Inside the compass of the night

Inside the folding of the land

Outside the stars are turning

Outside the world′s still burning

Inside my head′s a box of stars I never dared to open

Inside the wounded hide their scars,

inside this lonesome sparrow′s fall

Inside the songs of our defeat,

they sing of treaties broken

Inside this army′s in retreat,

we hide beneath the thunder′s call

Outside the rain keeps falling

Outside the drums are calling

Outside the flood won′t wait

Outside they′re hammering down the gate

Love is the child of an endless war

Love is an open wound still raw

Love is a shameless banner unfurled

Love′s an explosion,

Love is the fire of the world

Love is a violent star

A tide of destruction

Love is an angry scar

A violation, a mutilation, capitulation,

love is annihilation.

Inside the failures of the light,

the night is wrapped around me

Inside my eyes deny their sight,

you′d never find me in this place

Inside we′re hidden from the moonlight,

we shift between the shadows

Inside the compass of the night,

inside the memory of your face

Outside the walls are shaking

Inside the dogs are waking

Outside the hurricane won′t wait

Inside they′re howling down the gate

Love is the child of an endless war

Love is an open wound still raw

Love is a shameless banner unfurled

Love′s an explosion,

Love is the fire at the end of the world

Love is a violent star

A tide of destruction

Love is an angry scar

The pain of instruction

Love is a violation, a mutilation, capitulation,

Love is annihilation.

I climb this tower inside my head

A spiral stair above my bed

I dream the stairs don′t ask me why,

I throw myself into the sky

Love me like a baby, love me like an only child

Love me like an ocean; love me like a mother mild

Love me like a father, love me like a prodigal son

Love me like a sister,

love me like the world has just begun

Love me like a prodigy, love me like an idiot boy,

Love me like an innocent,

love me like your favorite toy

Love me like a virgin, love me like a courtesan,

Love me like a sinner, love me like a dying man.

Annihilate me, infiltrate me, incinerate me,

accelerate me, mutilate me, inundate me, violate me,

implicate me, vindicate me, devastate me

Love me like a parasite, love me like a dying sun

Love me like a criminal, love me like a man on the run

Radiate me, subjugate me, incubate me, recreate me,

demarcate me, educate me, punctuate me, evaluate me,

conjugate me, impregnate me, designate me, humiliate me,

segregate me, opiate me, calibrate me, replicate me