Fallen Angel

You were only talking, it's just a story that you tell

But I believed in heaven then and I believed in hell

I thought you were an angel whose wings were melted in the sun

Feathers falling all around, but you were still the one

And in the street we danced to a distant song

I wanted you to lift me up and carry me along

I thought you were an angel whose wings were hidden by a spell

Come for love to walk with me and hold me when I fell

And in the forest, drunken by the brook

I waited for your blessing like a lamb upon a rock

I thought that if I prayed that you would hear me call

Above all the other voices that had brought you to your fall

In the Wellesley Hospital in the smell of medicine and death

I wanted you to lie beside me so I could breathe a holy breath

I thought your wings were hidden, that they would suddenly appear

And we would open up the window and fly away from here