Bitter Days

In jealous youth
We made angel wings
Limits were our disease.

But burning hearts
Like flames consume
Only ash left for the breeze.

Bitter days that you can't undo
All the violence of our youth
Bitter days, though the light is off
Will all the world just come undone.

For helen's love
We will suffer blows
Currents of distress and storms.

A battered soul
Crushed beneath the waves
Scattered like the ruins of war.

Bitter days that you can't undo
All the violence of our youth
Bitter days, though the light is off
Will all the world just come undone.

You look tired
With all the winds conspiring at your back
And the salt on your hands
Thrown into the restless sea
The undertow is writhing at your feet.

Bitter days that you can't undo
All the violence of our youth
Bitter days, though the light is off
Will all the world just come undone
Unrelenting storms and shattered forms.