[Intro] [Sparse piano, dusty trip-hop beat, low guitar note] [Verse 1] They brought me to the chapel door Where I had left you days before The flowers rotted in their beds The earth was torn around the dead He held a lantern to your face There wasn't any death in you Your lips were red, your skin was warm Your eyes were someone else's blue [Chorus] If love could bring you back I'd never raise this hand I'd tear the nails out of the cross And give you all I am If love could bring you back I'd take you as you are But something wears the face I loved And calls me from the dark [Verse 2] You smiled the way you used to smile And asked me for one little kiss I knew the voice, I knew the mouth I nearly gave you what you wished He put the hammer in my hand The others turned their eyes away You whispered softly, come to me And I forgot the words to pray [Instrumental] [Trip-hop beat continues beneath a slow, crushing doom riff; mournful guitar melody] [Bridge] [Beat thins to sub-bass and piano; close, almost-spoken vocal] One hand upon the hammer One hand upon your heart I never thought that loving you Would mean we'd ever part [Final Chorus] [Full doom riff and beat return] If love could bring you back I'd never raise this hand But love was all I had to give And love could not command The thing that wore your lovely face Was gone before the dawn And there you lay, the girl I knew As though she'd never gone [Outro] [Beat falls away; piano and low guitar remain] They told me you were free at last I couldn't make myself look back [End] [Instrumental] [Trip-hop beat continues beneath a slow, crushing doom riff; mournful guitar melody] [Bridge] [Beat thins to sub-bass and piano; close, almost-spoken vocal] One hand upon the hammer One hand upon your heart I never thought that loving you Would mean we'd ever part [Final Chorus] [Full doom riff and beat return] If love could bring you back I'd never raise this hand But love was all I had to give And love could not command The thing that wore your lovely face Was gone before the dawn And there you lay, the girl I knew As though she'd never gone [Outro] [Beat falls away; piano and low guitar remain] They told me you were free at last I couldn't make myself look back [End]
