This morning I emerged

Onto wet earth

It had been raining.

And while it had been raining

You and I, we had been lying.

And while we had been lying

In the warmth we had been falling

Into slumber, with the thunder overhead.

In the cave we laid down

To the rain sounds

On your window.

Intermingled with the blood-rush

Of our love flush in our sinew.

Sleep joined us in the lamplight

As a fire in a campsite

But we set no-one to watch

With our guard down.

What a lovely hiding place

That you have made

To delay our parting

What a world outside

To keep each other safe from

That's all that I want, darling

That's all that I want, darling.

You hold me in the burrow

Your brow furrowed in your dreaming.

And at the time, the flood comes

And our blood runs

Cold and bleeding.

You'd lie, womblike

And in your arms

I'd cease my breathing.

With broken ribs

And one last kiss

I would die here warm.

What a lovely hiding place

That you have made

To delay our parting

What a world outside

To keep each other safe from

That's all that I want, darling

That's all that I want, darling.