Oh come let's run from this ring we're in
He reached past the wine for my hand to hold
And he asked for only now
And he saw me sitting there
Should I choose them all? Should I make them mine?
Oh will we pass the test?
The sermons, the hymns and the valentines
And he asked for truth and he asked for time
Where the Christians clap and the Germans grin
And he saw me young and he saw me old
Will one love less and less?
And his eyes looked into my eyes so far
The roof is ripped with hurricanes
So which words was I then to doubt
Now the trials are trumpet scored
He said, "You wouldn't like it here
Saying let them lose, crying let them win
And the room is always bare"
And my eyes said, let us try
When choosing what to vow?
And his eyes said me and his eyes said you
Or just as one loves more and more
No it's no place you should share
Then he took his contradictions out
Behind the lash and the circles blue
I need the wind and I seek the cold
He looked as only a priest can, through
And he splashed them on my brow
Whenever the words ran dry
