Who Fell Asleep In

She turned her back on the church and put all her faith in me At the back of the chapel where I taught her to screw and to blaspheme We turned our backs to the church, with our trousers around our knees While screaming the scriptures she said I was her favourite heresy In a note I read: "If you should go blind and deaf I'll cleanse, and I'll bathe you, and I'll cook for you daily I will take a dry ballpoint pen and trace on your chest All of the same conversations that we have now in bed." I don't mean to be selfish, but I think I'd sooner just be dead [Chorus] Behind the tennis court alongside the river, not a single live flower to see This is the one girl who woke up from all that and now falls asleep next to me But I swear now, every time that I kiss her, she feels her god breathe on her shoulder It pains me, but I'm sure she's still yours She said she wanted a sea burial, not grass and hypodermics to her hips I pruned the ivy from your grandmother's tomb More tender and careful than the superstitious ripped you from your mothers womb In a note I wrote: "I think too much about the end, but being around it made me feel like I'm coping Now when I view the cemetery I don't see headstones I see rows of engraved milk teeth, hungry, waiting for me" And though I am fearful, I think I just crave the relief [Chorus]