a stale romance and the solitude we share have dragged you to the beach to find me there every promise undone glittering in the sun in the golden sway of violence that morning you came and you stood in disbelief in longing and shame - the presentiment of grief to forgive and to define this treachery of mine you took off your clothes in silence

what a very strange season this is from the tender ax of springtime, defying the snows to the streaming summer's hatchet she rose now all covered with lime under an indifferent sky we smother everything in kisses oh, we smother everything in kisses