Intimacy

Next to her sleeping body, sunshine smell on her skin

Dreamtime slips through her fingers, must this day begin?

Can we ever really comprehend that we never really choose

All the tender words evaporating with the rising sun

One thousand ways to lose

At the start of the story when brave hearts break ground

Where hope bows to beauty in a spell so profound

Can we ever really count the cost, can we ever pay our dues?

All attempts to understand are met with such bewilderment

One thousand ways to lose

I bow down to your memory, where do you sleep tonight?

Will you wake with a teardrop, are your dreams contrite?

Can we ever really bluff and blame, can we stand up and accuse?

All attempts to justify, protect ourselves lie after lie

One thousand ways to lose

I’ve been watching you carefully for a little while

And I’m starting to see how you’re pinned

I know your body and I know your mind

It reveals the extent we have sinned

When love’s really healing there’s a special place -- lovers occupy

Between the sheets between the eyes we sigh and cry and kiss goodbye

To testify to this state of grace

I’d got used to your back as you walked away

That familiar sense of despair

When the desperate need to be understood

Had beaten the bond that we shared

Now you’re back like you never went away

With a different look in your eye

I stand in the gaze of the gods of love

And declare our truth to the sky …

I feel like I’m drowning in a sea of regret

Won’t you throw me a lifeline, catch me in your net

I dived with the frogmen to the wreckage below

I was drawn by your riptide, by your fierce undertow, won’t you

Wake me with a kiss again in the soft morning light

Show me what I miss again in the night -- let's give up the fight

If I walked on the water for you, turned this other cheek

If I raised up Lazarus, bequeathed all to the meek

Would you give up your mission, your carefully laid plan?

Could you drop your ambition embrace this broken man?

Wake me with a kiss again …

To all who are lost at sea, where all hope has flown

Don’t fear the sirens song, she’ll sing you home

Alone in the twilight, one more sinking sun

Must the world turn so slowly when love’s on the run?

I offered a diamond, you offered your scorn

I’m condemned for your suffering and the child still unborn

Wake me with a kiss again …

I’m joining the resistance -- the broken and the poor

Who once so brave in battle, have finally lost the war

We’ve even tried surveillance in the houses of the poor

Where random acts of love break out behind the bedroom door

Here comes another love song from another bleeding heart

In my great coat and my black beret I really look the part

I’m joining the resistance they’ve sprung my heart from jail

I’m learning how to lie and cheat, I’m learning how to fail

When Jesus and his fishermen cast their nets onshore

We watched them turn the other cheek and then gave them what for

I snuck into Gethsemane on a silent night like this

I’d asked the boys to back me up and betrayed him with a kiss

I’m joining the resistance, I just need one more night

I got the call from Paris and I’m waiting for my flight

Don’t question my commitment, don’t make me feel a fool 

I’ve tried to learn the book of love and broken every rule

I’ve tried to learn the book of love and broken every rule

Thunder heads form in the sky above me

The ocean starts to rumble and roll

‘Round my neck the Albatross keeps company

Day after my sails lose all control

Scales fall from my eyes like rain from a summer sky

I bless the beauty swimming all around me

The sea-wolf wails his lonesome song to testify

A spring of love connects his heart to the sea-wolf

Home again love -- home again

Will your arms be waiting for me?

Home again love, if the white dove

Guides me through this endless sea we’ll blessed be

We rounded the Cape of Good Hope with a good south wind

The glorious sun banished the fog and the mist

I cried out your name so loud that even the dolphins grinned

These salty lonely lips still long to be kissed

Home again love -- home again

Will your arms be waiting for me?

Home again love, if the white dove

Guides me through this endless sea we’ll blessed be

The bridegrooms doors are opened wide as the feast is set

The star in my bright sky has led me safe home

Home again love -- home again

Will your arms be waiting for me?

Home again love, if the white dove

Guides me through this endless sea we’ll blessed be

New ways to hide from the light, new ways to fight

New tears for old souvenirs, new words old spite

My old addiction, my closest friend

You kept the faith you were fighting to defend

Skin to skin -- when the words have lost all meaning

Skin to skin, no brave hero, no heroine

Up close -- beyond their strong defences

Hand to hand, eye to eye, heart to heart -- skin to skin

How quick snow turns to ice -- such pure sacrifice

Love sick -- hearts in a vice -- wastelands paradise

Our youth is spent, lets not pretend

Can we consent not offend or condescend

Skin to skin -- when the words have lost all meaning …

My old addiction, my closest friend

I’m drying out, have we finally reached the end?

Skin to skin -- when the words have lost all meaning …

After five long years in exile on an island cold and grey

Came a call from the land of freedom to return this castaway

He crossed the sea of treachery, cast off his disgrace

The prodigal returning to absolution's warm embrace

There’s a fool at every wedding and that time it was me 

If they call a fool the best man he won’t feel like a refugee

I danced with every woman there, I looked for love in vain

I was drunk on liberty, I slipped my ball and chain

The fool at the wedding feast rolled eyes at the judge's daughter

Serene like a Pascal lamb headed for the slaughter

She danced with the holy fool who tried to reward her

The fool at the wedding feast turned wine into water

She took him down the mountain and washed him in the sea

He rushed into her temple, went down on his knee

She packed light the queen of the night, kissed his sleeping face

She left a key for the refugee, was it honour or disgrace?

The fool at the wedding feast rolled eyes at the judge's daughter…

He told an easy story of how he’d been betrayed

‘Til the boy inside the man returned and destroyed this masquerade

He knew that she was leaving, he felt the kiss of death

While the man was grieving the boy took his last breath

The fool at the wedding feast rolled eyes at the judge's daughter …

In the soft morning light where I knelt down to pray

It seemed like an angel had fallen that day

Her skin glowing gently the shine of her hair

Stretched out on the alter like an answer to prayer

But I held my breath as her veil dropped away

And my spirit rejoiced at her naked display

This Benediction this song in her name

This hymn to her and the reason she came -- this benediction

With arms outstretched ‘Don’t look!’ she softly cried

Risking Medusa he stripped this willing bride

And there on the bed between yielding thighs

Their spirits rejoiced with wild angelic cries

This benediction this song in her name

This hymn to her and the reason she came -- this benediction

Where are we now, how did we get here?

Breathless and blind in this atmosphere

Shadows combine, darkness is complete

A mask to define this invincible defeat

Our hopes and dreams didn’t plan for times like these

Stranded here, quite alone, falling to our knees

The mystery dance will take us where

Retreat and advance must end, my friend, my hope my despair

Abandon hope all who enter here

We fools rush in, so brave so clear

We think we learn, teach our fingers not to burn

The fire of desire, the compulsion to return

The mystery dance will take us where

Retreat and advance must end, my friend, my hope my despair

Finally we clear the floor, the music fades once more

Looking down the years, making sense of tear-stained travel

How did we get here, where our hopes and dreams unravel?

Tide and time move in one direction

To understand love we’d have to be living in reverse

How many times have I said I’m sorry, how many wasted years?

Letters become clues read backwards, then a plan appears

Moon and stars move in one direction

But to understand love we’d have to living in reverse

All our burdens bourne like blunders to reform

All our foolish hopes and plans

Learning how to fall and learning where to crawl

Life makes sense backwards like reading in Japan