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
					 
					 
					
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