Soft Offering (For the Oft Suffering)

The long knife of the sun rising
Up the horizon and into our tired eyes
The spell of night is struck down
Our second sight is bleeding out
Anna, can I come and walk you home?
I'm not gonna want to be alone
Beaten up when the sunlight comes
Bullied and cut by the clock on the wall
Take the morning and the chlorinous light
You can have the afternoon, bury the evening too!
Give me the gathering calm of the night
When the day is done and the rest is coming on
Under the pitch and the pull of the moon
Sweet silver medicine swim in my temples and
Bring in the shadows to cover our flaws
When the day is done and the rest is coming on
You belong out of that uniform
Out in the streets, when everyone else is asleep
See the way the body sways in empty air
When there's nobody there, and you don't even care if there is
Anna, can I be to you like that?
Cover your shame with a shield of black?
Cover your body with my trembling hands,
Have you dancing while I hold them back?
Hold back the morning and her chlorinous light
Have the afternoon, bury the evening too!
Let's have the gathering calm of the night
When the day is done, and the rest is coming on
Under the pitch and the pull of the moon
Sweet silver medicine swim in my temples and
Bring in the shadows to cover out wounds
When the pain is gone and the rest is coming on
Coming on
Coming on