Us

I caught sight of my reflection
I caught it in the window
I saw the darkness in my heart
I saw the signs of my undoing
They had been there from the start
And the darkness still has work to do
The knotted chord's untying
They're heated and they're holy
Oh they're sitting there on high
So secure with everything they're buying

{chorus:}
In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
We wanted the union
Oh the union of the woman
The woman and the man

My grip is surely slipping
I think i've lost my hold
Yes, i think i've lost my hold
I cannot get insurance anymore
They don't take credit, only gold
Is that a dagger or a crucifix i see
You hold so tightly in your hand
And all the while the distance grows between you and me
I do not understand

[chorus]

At my request, you take me in
In that tenderness, i am floating away
No certainty, nothing to rely on
Holding still for a moment
What a moment this is
Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss
Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I can hear the distant thunder
Of a million unheard souls
Of a million unheard souls
Watch each one reach for creature comfort
For the filling of their holes

In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of eden
We wanted the union
Of the woman and the man

In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman
And the woman in the man

In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman
And the woman in the man


In the blood of eden
We've done everything we can
In the blood of eden
Saw the end as we began
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
It was all for the union
Oh, the union of the woman, the woman and the man.

[extra lyrics from the "film mix"]

The blood of eden keeps running through me
Running through my veins
The blood of eden keeps rushing through me
When i'm sure there's none that remains
The blood of eden keeps running through me
I can feel it in my bones
That blood of eden keeps rushing through me
Taking back what it owns

[aaaaahi, byeeee]

So, you know how people are
When it's all gone much too far
The way their minds are made
Still, there's something you should know
That i could not let show
That fear of letting go

And in this moment, i need to be needed
With this darkness all around me, i like to be liked
In this emptiness and fear, i want to be wanted
'cause i love to be loved
I love to be loved [x2]
Yes, i love to be loved

I cry the way that babies cry
The way they can't deny
The way they feel
Words, they climb all over you
'til they uncover you
From where you hide

And in this moment, i need to be needed
When my self-esteem is sinking, i like to be liked
In this emptiness and fear,
I want to be wanted
'cause i love to be loved
I love to be loved [x2]
Oh i love to be loved

This old familiar craving
I've been here before, this way of behaving
Don't know who the hell i'm saving anymore
Let it pass let it go let it leave
From the deepest place i grieve
This time i believe

And i let go [x2]
I can let go of it
Though it takes all the strength in me
And all the world can see
I'm losing such a central part of me
I can let go of it
You know i mean it
You know that i mean it
I recognize how much i've lost
But i cannot face the cost
'cause i love to be loved

Yes i love to be loved
I love to be loved
[x3]

I love to be loved
I love to be loved
Yes i love to be loved

I stood in this sunsheltered place
'til i could see the face behind the face
All that had gone before had left no trace

Down by the railway siding
In our secret world, we were colliding
All the places we were hiding love
What was it we were thinking of?

So i watch you wash your hair
Underwater, unaware
And the plane flies through the air
Did you think you didn't have to choose it
That i alone could win or lose it
In all the places we were hiding love
What was it we were thinking of?

In this house of make believe
Divided in two, like adam and eve
You put out and i recieve

{chorus:}
Down by the railway siding
In our secret world, we were colliding
In all the places we were hiding love
What was it we were thinking of?

Oh the wheel is turning spinning round and round
And the house is crubling but the stairways stand

With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame
Whatever it is, we are all the same

Making it up in our secret world [x3]
Shaking it up
Breaking it up
Making it up in our secret world

Seeing things that were not there
On a wing on a prayer
In this state of disrepair

[chorus]

Shh, listen...

The wretched desert takes its form, the jackal proud and tight
In search of you, i feel my way, though the slowest heaving night
Whatever fear invents, i swear it make no sense
I reach through the border fence
Come down, come talk to me

In the swirling, curling storm of desire unuttered words hold fast
With reptile tongue, the lightning lashes towers built to last
Darkness creeps in like a thief and offers no relief
Why are you shaking like a leaf
Come on, come talk to me

Ah please talk to me
Won't you please talk to me
We can unlock this misery
Come on, come talk to me

{chorus 1:}
I did not come to steal
This all is so unreal
Can't you show me how you feel now
Come on, come talk to me
Come talk to me [x2]

The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone
From nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one
You lie there with your eyes half closed like there's no-one there at all
There's a tension pulling on your face
Come on, come talk to me

Won't you please talk to me
If you'd just talk to me
Unblock this misery
If you'd only talk to me

{chorus 2:}
Don't you ever change your mind
Now your future's so defined
And you act so deaf and blind
[and you act so deaf so blind]
Come on, come talk to me
Come talk to me [x2]

I can imagine the moment
Breaking out through the silence
All the things that we both might say
And the heart it will not be denied
'til we're both on the same damn side
All the barriers blown away

I said please talk to me
Won't you please come talk to me
Just like it used to be
Come on, come talk to me
I did not come to steal
This all is so unreal
Can you show me how you feel now
Come on, come talk to me
Come talk to me [x2]

I said please talk to me
If you'd just talk to me
Unblock this misery
If you'd only talk to me
[chorus 2]

River, river carry me on
Living river carry me on
River, river carry me on
To the place where i come from

So deep, so wide, will you take me on your back for a ride
If i should fall, would you swallow me deep inside

River, show me how to float
I feel like i'm sinking down
Thought that i could get along
But here in this water
My feet won't touch the ground
I need something to turn myself around

Going away, away towards the sea
River deep, can you lift up and carry me
Oh roll on though the heartland
'til the sun has left the sky
River, river carry me high
'til the washing of the water make it all alright
Let your waters reach me like she reached me tonight

Letting go, it's so hard
The way it's hurting now
To get this love untied
So tough to stay with thing
'cause if i follow through
I face what i denied
I get those hooks out of me
And i take out the hooks that i sunk deep in your side
Kill that fear of emptiness, loneliness i hide

River, oh river, river running deep
Bring me something that will let me get to sleep
In the washing of the water will you take it all away
Bring me something to take this pain away