Shallow Bed (Acoustic)

I waited by your bedside, And didn't close my eyes all night. I named you like a prayer. It's anybody's guess how, The angel of doubt came down, And crept into your bed. But after we danced to the shipping forecast, The words escaped your mouth: "I k

You are the string in my bow. Biblical Mary to Joe. The North isn't true 'til it's leading me to you. You are the way that I know. Under the weight of belief You shiver and shake like a leaf. But death is a force, not a man on a horse: I'll keep you

Like faithful oxen through the chalk, With dragging tails of history walk. We soon confuse the compass and the cross. Carefully and cursively we fill our traveling diaries with loss. Beneath an angry Bible flood, Did you and I first learn to love. In

With my family on the right hand side And your family on the left We got married in a single bed We sang shaker hymns When your warhorse grandfather had sung The whole damn Song of Solomon We toasted health in the front room We whiled away the aftern