Love Used to Be

[Verse 1]

Love used to be the ruler

From which you measured all

Love used to be the dizzying height

From which you wished to fall

Love used to be the white and gauzy apparition

Towering in your dreams

Love used to be

Love used to be

[Verse 2]

Love used to be the horseshoe made of iron

And always smiling up

And in your arms it gathered

All manner of silky satin golden luck

Love used to be the pyramid and on top

Its eye that always sees

Love used to be

Love used to be

[Chorus]

Dig a six-foot hole inside my chest

Heart like a gravestone, lay it down to rest

Goodbye, love

Amen

[Verse 3]

Love used to be a sigh like petals

Gently falling down

From the flower of my lover's

Half open rosebud mouth

Love used to be the thirst, oh, and the quenching

The question in no need of answering

Love used to be

Love used to be

[Verse 4]

Love used to be hope unflinching

A dare that believed it must

Love used to be the heady, drunken feeling of

Flesh heavy with lust

Love used to be a photograph of the future

Taken by one mind, four eyes could see

Love used to be

Love used to be

[Chorus]

Dig a six-foot hole inside my chest

Heart like a gravestone, lay it down to rest

Goodbye, love

Amen

[Verse 5]

Love used to be a miracle

The proof that God exists

As it doubled our image

Immortality delivered by the double helix

Love used to be the bedrock you built a life upon

Into the future reaching

It used to be what woke you each day

And eased me into sleeping

Love used to be my compass

But now I'm alone and I'm adrift and I'm lost at sea

Cause love used to be

Love used to be

Love used to be

Love used to be