Love's Bones

from Devil's Blues by Joy

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Angels leave their bones in rocks
Sunk like prehistoric birds
Calcified in fallen flocks
Fossils of defunct saints

And we’ll leave craters in the crust
And feathers preserved in clay
Watts when we were luminous
Worms when we die

Divide in two
If love’s the load that anchors you
And the soil gets your grace
And your mouth fills with coal
And you know

About the cold of the flood coming over your toes
And the fate of the breath you hold
About the weight of your loneliness
And the sulfur that stains the insides of your veins
Burning more the faster it flows

Mama, your sweat is hot
And your wings are on fire

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from Devil's Blues, released June 13, 2005

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