Defiantly Loved

There's hounds behind me,
 For the blood upon my hands.
 No crowd will hide me
 Now they've found the path I ran.
 I pound the backstreets,
 Fear numbed my aching bones.
 Feet don't fail me
 Take me home.
 Faster, faster,
 You know time's not on my side.
 The truth I harbour
 Is getting harder now to hide.
 A child abandoned
 Coming present in my skin,
 Still unforgiven for giving in.
 But so defiant, defiant, defiantly loved by you,
 Defiant, defiantly loved, loved loved.
 Your eyes unblinded
 As the lies were boldly sworn,
 I guard a proud heart
 And my silver tongue was drawn.
 Our lives divided,
 But we steel our nerve and spine.
 I for your own sake,
 And you for mine.
 So defiant, defiant, defiantly loved by you,
 Defiant, defiantly loved, loved, loved.
 The river rolls on
 With a grace upon it's shame.
 A faithful white swan,
 Loyal to it's poisoned veins.
 A thousand secrets
 That have drowned within those depths,
 Bound and silenced
 On a stone cold bed.
 So defiant, defiant, defiantly loved by you,
 Defiant, defiantly loved, loved, loved.
 When I was locked in
 Paranoid, involuntary choices,
 I was loved, loved.
 When I was screaming
 But was one in a cacophony of solitary voices,
 I was loved, loved.
 Forever screaming in the void.
 Forever screaming at the void.
 Defiant, defiant, defiantly loved by you,
 Defiant, defiantly loved.