TALONS

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And in the dark it comes for me

Malevolent and without form

Uprooting trees

Destroying cars

Cold and relentless

With arms outstretched

 

No bolt nor brick

Nor crucifix can hold it back

I have been wicked

I have been arrogant

 

And when it comes it will feel like a kiss

Silent and velvet

And when it comes it will feel like a kiss

And I cannot say that

I was not warned or was misled

When it comes it will feel like a kiss

 

Awaken from dreams

Of drunken car crashes

You've saddened my friends

And claimed all my lovers

I try to stay still

So it will not see me

Its talons rake the side of my face

Oh when did you become

Such a slut?

 

And when it comes it will feel like a kiss

Silent and velvet

And when it comes it will feel like a kiss

And I cannot say that

I was not warned or was misled

When it comes it will feel like a kiss

 

And I didn't think I'd catch fire

When I held my hand to the flame

And I didn't think it would catch up

As fast as I could have run

Fate came a-knocking

When I was looking the other way

A new disease came in the post

For me today

 

And when it comes it will feel like a kiss

And when it comes it will feel like a kiss

And when it comes

And when it comes

And when it comes

And when it comes

It will feel like a kiss