As you danced around
The golden calf, your spinning gown
Showed all the hungry boys in town
What they had missed
They thought that you had found
The echoes of that holy sound
Which got it spat into the ground
That he had kissed
Your soul was tearing in a thread,
Was dragged behind you as you fled
Into the shadows of the bed
In which you hid
And as the whispers spread,
Their color darkened to a red,
That stained all you ever said
With what you did
And I met you one night
Through a trick of the light,
A thousand lifetimes ago
And I held your face in my hands and I traced
Every line you never wanted to show
Cause I know
We are the children that never let go
We are the children that never let go
As they poured across
The borders of your dress, they crossed
Into the layer of the frost
Around your name
And everyone of them was lost
Between a hammer and a cross
That you labeled and then tossed
Into the flame
You know, I never meant to try
To teach you anything, but my
Commandments smashed when I collided
With your hips
And who was I to dare
To love you or to interfere
With all the scars that you declared
Across your lips
And I met you one day
Through a crack in the pavement
A thousand silences old
I pulled your chest to my hand and I pressed
Every crest that was covered in snow
Cause I know
We are the children that never let go
We are the children that never let go
We are the children that never let go
I was forced to scavenge
Through the rotting crates and salvage
That was broken down and ravaged
By the sea
And as we stepped outside
We saw the calf and then a tide
Of moonlight hid its golden hide
And it was me