Who Fell Asleep In

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
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 In a note I read:
 "If you should go blind and deaf
 I'll cleanse and I'll bathe you and I'll 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 don't mean to be selfish
 But I think I'd sooner just be dead
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 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 I'm sure she's still yours
 She said she wanted a sea burial
 Not grass and hypodermics to her hips
 I pruned the ivy from your grandmother's tomb
 More tender and careful than the superstitious
 Ripped you from your mother's womb
 In a note I wrote:
 "I think too much about the end
 But being around, it made me feel like I'm coping
 Now, when I view the cemetery
 I don't see headstones
 I see rows of engraved milk teeth
 Hungry, waiting for me"
 And though I'm fearful
 I think I just crave the relief
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 Behind the tennis court alongside the river
 Paper flower's still 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 I'm sure she's still yours