Inside the doors are sealed to love

Inside my heart is sleeping

Inside the fingers of my glove

Inside the bones of my right hand

Inside it's colder than the stars

Inside the dogs are weeping

Inside the circus of the wind

Inside the clocks are filled with sand

Inside she'll never hurt me

Inside the winter's creeping

Inside the compass of the night

Inside the folding of the land



Outside the stars are turning

Outside the world's still burning



Inside my head's a box of stars I never dared to open

Inside the wounded hide their scars, inside this lonesome sparrow's fall

Inside the songs of our defeat, they sing of treaties broken

Inside this army's in retreat, we hide beneath the thunder's call



Outside the rain keeps falling

Outside the drums are calling

Outside the flood won't wait

Outside they're hammering down the gate



Love is the child of an endless war

Love is an open wound still raw

Love is a shameless banner unfurled

Love's an explosion,

Love is the fire of the world

Love is a violent star

A tide of destruction

Love is an angry scar

A violation, a mutilation, capitulation, love is annihilation.



Inside the failures of the light, the night is wrapped around me

Inside my eyes deny their sight, you'd never find me in this place

Inside we're hidden from the moonlight, we shift between the shadows

Inside the compass of the night, inside the memory of your face



Outside the walls are shaking

Inside the dogs are waking

Outside the hurricane won't wait

Inside they're howling down the gate



Love is the child of an endless war

Love is an open wound still raw

Love is a shameless banner unfurled-acapo