Daemon Lover

You came back through my front door Seven years gone in one breath Said you came for the vows I swore Said you still got my name in your chest I said don't start that former vows talk I am a wife now, don't touch that wire Still your look put salt in my mouth Still my whole good sense caught fire You said you crossed that Irish ground Just to get back next to me I said you could've had a rich man's girl You knew what this would be My room tilts left, my pulse goes wrong One step more and I'm off the edge Your voice goes sweet, my body gone I feel that old oath at my neck One drop, two drops Red on my tongue, heat in my lungs Say stop, can't stop I feel that fever come Daemon lover, slow poison Pull my ship out past the shoreline Former vows in your low voice Gold on the mast and ruin inside Daemon lover, red poison Sweet on my mouth, black in my blood I see the dark and I still want it I leave the safe for the beautiful flood "O I'm come to seek my former vows Ye granted me before." I said I got my husband home Two little babies with milk on their breath If I walk out, what takes me on What do you have but a loaded kiss You said seven ships upon the sea The eighth one came to bring me in Music on every hand for me Fine cloth sails and beaten gold trim I kissed both cheeks and both small chins Said fair you well, I can't stay clean Stepped on deck and the deck sat bare Not one bold mariner seen Still that shine ran cold and hard And I let that cold thing carry me Cold air cuts and your face slips strange My gut wakes up too late to run Far bright hills start to blur and change Land goes small and my prayer comes undone One drop, two drops Red in the wave, ice in my lungs Too far, too gone I feel that fever come Daemon lover, slow poison Pull my ship out past the shoreline Former vows in your low voice Gold on the mast and a split underneath Daemon lover, red poison Sweet on my mouth, black in my blood I know this trip is all destruction Still I drink from your shining cup Red poison, Daemon lover Former vows, Daemon lover (Na na) red poison Daemon lover "I will shew you how the lilies grow On the banks of Italy." "O yon is the mountain of hell," he cries, "Where you and I will go." Then I saw your cloven foot Black split mark in the pretty shine Those sweet hills were heaven, far That cold white mountain was hell, all mine Daemon lover, slow poison Pull my ship into frozen dark Former vows in a false low promise Gold mast snaps and the ship splits apart Daemon lover, red poison Sweet on my mouth, ash in my blood You sold me heaven, gave me hellfire Still I went for the beautiful flood No way back now No land now Just your hand now And black water Daemon lover I know your name now Past the last shore I still go (Mmm) still go