A Love Song Seven Ways

It starts so early now
The Sun has gone to Birkenau
As shadows creep across your brow
I love you just the same
These freakish holidays
That make us act like renegades
A blood bath at the Ice Capades
Just makes me love you

More than I should ever have been allowed
In a world of candy guns
Sweet as demons in the candy apple Sun
Think it quiet but then don’t sing it loud
Through a world of number ones
Pointed skyward at the candy apple Sun

It always used to snow
The winters here like Buffalo
Now it feels like Bamako
I love you seven ways
You wear those baby tees
With pictures of atrocities
You stare at me, oh honey please
I still love you

More than I should ever have been allowed
In a world of candy guns
Sweet as demons in the candy apple Sun
Think it quiet but then don’t sing it loud
To a world of number ones
Pointed skyward at the candy apple Sun

With the fire of an outrageous crowd
As it burns the stadium
Swinging torches in the candy apple Sun
Someday we’ll be halfway to the here and now
But till then let’s have some fun
Licking letters in the candy apple Sun

You claim your joints and knees
Predict weather catastrophes
Because I worship how you breathe
I love you seven ways