I caught you in the briar patch Your hair was red, your skull was cracked Your hands were clenched and teeth were gone Your eyes were glass, your heart was stone I looked at you and kissed your cheek Your skin was wet, your skin was sweet I held you up and cradled you Your bones were tight, refused to move Then suddenly to my surprise Your mouth it smiled, your soul alive Into the dirt we fall entwined Your mouth agape, your neck in mine You fed me dear with bright red love Your fur like silk, your body blood I'll let you sink into the ground And let the earth reclaim you now You kissed your God hands Your lips pressed to dead flesh And those same lips kissed me Dead breath I breathed it into you My poison saliva sweet like honey We lay together in dead fields Dried earth split and ant-crawling Skin scratched from yellow grass My eyes have dried, lids stuck and frozen And the rain comes I renew, swollen with heaven-syrup I turn to you, you're a husk The green shoots writhe around you, the earth swallowing Empty man with empty hearts You kissed the wrong hand dearest You kissed the wrong girl