When You Come

Album: Temple of Low Men (1988)
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  • When you come across the sea
    Me like a beacon, guiding you to safety
    The sooner the better now

    And when you come the hills will breathe
    Like a baby, pulled up
    Heaving from the bottom of the ocean
    The sooner the better now

    And when you come to cover me
    With your kisses, fresh like a daisy
    Chained up in a lion's den
    The sooner the better now

    I'll know you by the thunderclap
    Pouring like a rain of blood to my emotions
    And that is why, I stumble to my knees

    And why, underneath the Heavens
    With the stars burning and exploding
    I know why I could never let you down
    When you come

    When you come like an iceberg, float in darkness
    Smashing my hull, send me to the bottom of the sea
    I should know you better now

    And when you come, your majesty to entrap me
    Prince of light receding
    The sooner the better now

    And when you come to cover me
    With your kisses hard like armour
    The sooner the better now

    I'll know you by the thunderclap
    Pouring like a rain of blood to my emotions, hey
    And that is why, I stumble to my knees

    And why underneath the Heavens
    With the stars they're burning and exploding
    I know why I could never let you down
    She came out of the water
    Into my horizon
    Like a cumulonimbus
    Coming in from the distance
    Burning and exploding
    Burning and exploding
    Like a slow volcano
    When you come
    When you come
    Cover the ground, cover the ground
    With ashes, with ashes
    Baby, when you come
    Nothing changes, now
    When you come
    Burning and exploding
    When you come
    When you come Writer/s: Neil Mullane Finn
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 1

  • Martha from Knoxville, TnAlthough I have read Mr. Finn was referring to the second coming of Christ, I feel sure it refers to the sacred experience of marital lovemaking. I hope so, at least.
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