Will Our Love
We camped at a lake like a tarnished cymbal,
Looked at the people we’ve slowly become
I always dreamt that I’d be your thimble
A bullet of silver protecting your thumb
Babe don’t go back there a black bear is guarding her den
The second she’s threatened, well what happens then:
She’ll charge down the path with a wrath that will straighten your spine
What a marvelous teacher, this creature’s divine
will our love be as mighty when we’re eighty or ninety,
will our love, will our love will our love
will our love be abundant when we’re over a hundred
will our love, will our love, will our love
The taste on our tongue is of hellfire and havoc
The thrill of a debt we can never repay
We hear on the breeze a murmur of traffic
Too faint to tell if it’s coming our way
But the men from the county want bounty, they’re a ravenous crew
And financial reward strikes a chord in them too
With state-issued pistols and fistfuls of black billy clubs
They thrash through the bracken, attackin’ those innocent cubs
will our love be as risky when we’re forty or fifty,
will our love, will our love, will our love
will our love be as heavenly when we’re sixty or seventy,
will our love, will our love, will our love
Hear me roar, hear they come
My amour: a moratorium.
Next to the camp, a hangman willow
Drops its leaves at the rim of the lake
You were asleep with my chest for a pillow
I caught myself wishing that you’d never wake
But the leaves are all blood-red, in the bloodshed they faltered and froze
And the men in your nightmare are right there, arriving in droves
They’re grizzled and they chisel w/ their tongues and their teeth
Rip through your clothing exposing the skin underneath
When they reach for the shackles, my hackles will instantly rise
And I’ll charge down the path with a wrath that will widen their eyes
I’ll fight with such fury they’d surely regret that they came
And the reason I love you is because you would do just the same
Will our love be as dirty by the time we turn thirty,
Will our love, will our love, will our love
Will our love be as risky when we’re forty or fifty,
Will our love, will our love, will our love
Will our love be as heavenly when we’re sixty or seventy,
Will our love, will our love, will our love
Will our love be as mighty when we’re eighty or ninety,
Will our love, will our love will our love
Will our love be abundant when we’re over a hundred
Will our love, will our love, will our love
Will our love have been plenty if we die when we’re twenty
Will our love, will our love, will our love