Ghost Of A Saint - Chris Connelly

Life out of breath

Living out the filth I have to face

A loveless grin and the sweetest taste

The distance is drained

To where our lowly necks meet

The urge is impassive

As shadows lay framed in the heat

And cold is the martyr

His broken face melts in the rain

Proclaimed in procession

Of paradise wasted in pain

The wounded surround us

Decayed in the ghost of a saint

And cheated from rebirth eyes closed

And the heart becomes faint

I start for a moment

And count out the beasts I betrayed

A need for the marvelous

Dies scorched in the bed where we layed