Love Used To Be

Album: Picking Up the Pieces (2015)
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  • Love used to be the ruler
    From which you measured all
    Love used to be the dizzying height
    From which you wished to fall
    Love used to be the white and gauzy apparition
    Towering in your dreams
    Love used to be
    Love used to be

    Love used to be the horseshoe made of iron
    And always smiling up
    And in your arms it gathered
    All manner of silky satin golden luck
    Love used to be the pyramid and on top
    It's eye that always sees
    Love used to be
    Love used to be

    Dig a six-foot hole
    Inside my chest
    Heart like a gravestone
    Lay it down to rest
    Goodbye love
    Amen

    Love used to be a sigh like petals
    Gently falling down
    From the flower of my lover's
    Half open rosebud mouth
    Love used to be the thirst, oh, and the quenching
    The question in no need of answering
    Love used to be
    Love used to be

    Love used to be hope unflinching
    The dare that believed it must
    Love used to be the heady drunken feeling of
    Flesh heavy with lust
    Love used to be the photograph of the future
    Taken by one mind four eyes could see
    Love used to be
    Love used to be

    Dig a six-foot hole
    Inside my chest
    Heart like a gravestone
    Lay it down to rest
    Goodbye love
    Amen

    Love used to be a miracle
    The proof that God exists
    As it doubled our image, immortality delivered
    By the double helix
    Love used to be the bedrock you built a life upon
    Into the future reaching
    It used to be what woke you each day
    And eased me into sleeping
    Love used to be my compass
    But now I'm alone and I'm adrift and I'm lost at sea
    'Cause love used to be
    Love used to be
    Love used to be
    Love used to be Writer/s: Jewel Kilcher
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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