Pagan Love Song

I just couldn’t watch you
when I knew you’d crash and burn
so I tried not to
while I harbored my concern
I stood by waiting,
patient I would get my turn
and walked away clean,
faithful someday I would learn
that your broken pieces
scattered all about
would make you turn to me
and you’d let it all out
And I’d hold the pan
whilst we swept it away
even when your tears
didn’t have nothin’ to say
I knew it was better
than fighting to be
as far as I could from you
until you see
the far reaches
of all that’s inside of me
when I’d believed so long

in our pagan love song
that says you belong with me
This pagan love song,
oh, it will always be
our pagan love song,
our story, you and me
Would it be so wrong
to surrender and let this be
our pagan love song?

I dampened my ardor
and held all of it in
though religionists judged it
as a hell that’s made from sin
Holding out for far more
than all what we had been
to each other before
and until that one time when,
oh, I knew he would hurt you,
that son of a bitch,
and leave you for dead
like a deer in the ditch
And, when he ran you over,
I hated to be so right about
all of the things I’d foreseen
But that doesn’t matter,
you reached out to say
you regret you ignored me
and could I find a way
to forgive and forget
and to pick up each piece
of your heart
that had hope yet

for our pagan love song
that says you belong with me
This pagan love song,
oh, it will always be
our pagan love song,
our story, you and me
Would it be so wrong
to surrender and let this be?

(You) put your head on my shoulder
as my closest friend
with your arms around me
as we lay on the bed
And, the ceiling was watching
as we closed our eyes
while between us a closeness
that lasted all night

Yeah, there went our friendship
just slipping away
as you nestled your head
holding tighter to me
And, we trembled wondering
“is this happening?”
when we’d waited so long

for our pagan love song
that says you belong with me
Oh, it will always be
our pagan love song,
our story for always,
this will be our pagan love song
our pagan love song