Humbled in Love

Do you remember all of those pledges        That we pledged in the passionate night        Ah they're soiled now they're torn at the edges       Like moths on a stale yellow light              No penance serves to renew them       No massive transfusions of trust        Why not even revenge can undo them       So twisted these vows and so crushed And you say you've been humbled in love Cut down in your love Forced to kneel in the mud next to me Ah but why so bitterly turn from the one Who kneels there as deeply as thee Children have taken these pledges         They have ferried them out of the past         Oh beyond all the graves and the hedges      Where love must go hiding at last               And here where there is no description       Oh here in the moment at hand         No sinner need rise up forgiven       No victim need limp to the stand And you say you've been humbled in love Cut down in your love Forced to kneel in the mud next to me Ah but why so bitterly turn from the one Who kneels there as deeply as thee And look dear heart look at the virgin         Look how she welcomes him into her gown         Yes and mark how the stranger's cold armour      Dissolves like a star falling down               Why trade this vision for desire         When you may have them both         You will never see a man this naked       I will never hold a woman this close And you say you've been humbled in love Cut down in your love Forced to kneel in the mud next to me Ah but why so bitterly turn from the one Who kneels there as deeply as thee