Cactus

When you crawled out of the fire

Did you feel like you were born again

Did it wash away your sins

Like some poor man’s baptism

And when you dove into the darkness

With Andromeda at your back

Did you search for another savior

One who wouldn’t recognize you in your new skin

Shame on me, shame on me

And all that I do, all that do

If I could melt all of your snow

If I could bring this desert to you

Would you walk with me where the cactus blooms

When you lost all of your chances

And you washed back up on shore

With all your failures drowned behind you

And all your restlessness and all your apathy long gone

Shame on me, shame on me

And all that I do, all that do

If I could melt all of your snow

And shake the scorpions out of your shoes

Would you walk with me where the cactus blooms