La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies lyrics

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They stored their passion in the creases in the corners of their mouths, <br />

Every angle of light from the open window washed their aged faces out.<br />

"Should we feel guilty", They said, "Should we feel guilty for this sin?<br />

Lord, did we kill a man and woman just to lie here skin to skin?"<br />

"I wasn't happy. I wasn't happy where I was... <br />

What is life without a purpose? What is purpose without love?<br />

I pray my children will forgive me, though I bade the river flood.<br />

I have washed my hands a thousand times but still can see the blood."<br />

"Oh, great mercy, I am here to beg forgiveness for this mess.<br />

I know I tore two worlds apart but I can't change the way I felt.<br />

Love swept in like a storm and ripped the hinges from the doors.<br />

Love poured in like a flood, I couldn't stop it anymore. I will not be drowned."<br />

She said, "Lover, come and hold me, I am terribly afraid.<br />

While you're shouting at the stars, my scars are not fading away."<br />

He said, "Darling, I was begging heaven make them disappear, but, <br />

See, I didn't get an answer or at least one I could hear.<br />

Now, I am thinking of the past and how we both said vows and lied and<br />

I am wondering how we trust ourselves to say a second time:<br />

'To have and to hold, <br />

From this day and onward, <br />

For better and for worse, <br />

For richer and for poorer, <br />

In sickness or in health, <br />

To love and to cherish<br />

Till death do us part?'"