Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies letra

They stored their passion in the creases
In the corners of their mouths
Every angle of light from the open window
Washed their aged faces out
Should we feel guilty, they said
Should we feel guilty for this sin
Lord, did we kill a man and woman
Just to lie her skin to skin

I wasn't happy
I wasn't happy where I was
What is life without a purpose
What is purpose without love
I pray my children will forgive me
Though I bade the river flood
I have washed my hands a thousand times
But still can see the blood
I still can see the blood

Oh great mercy, I am here to beg forgiveness for this mess
I know I tore two worlds apart
But I can't change the way I felt
Love swept in like a storm and ripped the hinges from the doors
Love poured in like a flood
I couldn't stop it anymore
I will not be
No I will not be drowned

She said, lover come and hold me
I am terribly afraid
While you're shouting at the stars
My scars are not fading away
He said, darling, I was begging heaven make them disappear
But see, I didn't get an answer or at least one I could hear
Now I am thinking of the past and how we both said vows and lied
And I am wondering how we trust ourselves to say a second time
To say a second time

To have and to hold
From this day and onward
For better or for worse
For richer or poorer
In sickness and in health
To love and to cherish
Till death do us part
Till death do us part

La Dispute - Letras

• 35
• A
• A Broken Jar
• A Departure
• A Letter
• A Poem
• A Word Of Welcome And Of Warning
• All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
• Andria
• Anxiety Panorama
• Bury Your Flames
• Damaged Goods
• Edit Your Hometown
• Edward Benz, 27 Times
• Eight
• Eleven
• Extraordinary Dinner Party
• Fairmount
• Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
• First Reactions After Falling Through the Ice
• Five
• Footsteps At The Pond
• For Mayor in Splitsville
• Four
• Fulton Street I
• Fulton Street Ii
• Future Wars
• Harder Harmonies
• He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
• How I Feel
• Hudsonville Mi
• I See Everything
• In Northern Michigan
• King Park
• Last Blues
• Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
• New Storms For Older Lovers
• Nine
• Nobody, Not Even the Rain
• Objects In Space
• One
• Only Everything Below
• Rhodonite And Grief
• Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
• Safer in the Forest / Love Song for Poor Michigan
• Said the King To the River
• Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
• See You In Vancouver
• Seven
• Shall Never Lose It's Power
• Six
• St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
• Stay Happy There
• Such Small Hands
• Sunday Morning, At a Funeral
• Ten
• The Castle Builders
• The Child We Lost
• The Last Lost Continent
• The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
• The Surgeon And The Scientist
• Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
• There You Are (Hiding Place)
• Thirteen
• Three
• To Withstand The Force Of Storms
• Twas The Night Before Christmas
• Twelve
• Two
• Untitled
• View From Our Bedroom Window
• Why It Scares Me
• Woman (In Mirror)
• Woman (Reading)
• You And I In Unison
• You Ascendant