[Verse 1] She turned her back on the church And put all her faith in me At the back of the chapel Where I taught her to screw and to blaspheme We turned our backs to the church With our trousers around our knees While screaming the scriptures She said I was her favourite heresy [Verse 2] In a note, I read, If you should go blind and deaf Ill cleanse and Ill bathe you and Ill cook for you daily I will take a dry ballpoint pen and trace on your chest All of the same conversations that we have now in bed I dont mean to be selfish But I think Id sooner just be dead [Chorus] Behind the tennis court, alongside the river Not a single live flower to see This is the one girl who woke up from all that And now falls asleep next to me But I swear now Every time that I kiss her She feels her god breathe on her shoulder It pains me, but Im sure shes still yours [Verse 3] She said she wanted a sea burial Not grass and hypodermics to her hips I pruned the ivy from your grandmothers tomb More tender and careful than the superstitious Ripped you from your mothers womb [Verse 4] In a note, I wrote, I think too much about the end But being around it made me feel like Im coping Now when I view the cemetery, I dont see headstones I see rows of engraved middle teeth, hungry, waiting for me And though I am fearful I think I just crave the relief [Chorus] Behind the tennis court, alongside the river A paper flowers still a beautiful thing This is the one girl who woke up from all that And now falls asleep next to me But I swear now Every time that I kiss her She feels her god breathe on her shoulder It pains me, but Im sure shes still yours
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