Inside the doors are sealed to love
  Inside my heart is sleeping
  Inside the fingers of my glove
  Inside the bones of my right hand
  Inside it's colder than the stars
  Inside the dogs are weeping
  Inside the circus of the wind
  Inside the clocks are filled with sand
  Inside she'll never hurt me
  Inside the winter's creeping
  Inside the compass of the night
  Inside the folding of the land
    Outside the stars are turning
  Outside the world's still burning
    Inside my head's a box of stars I never dared to open
  Inside the wounded hide their scars, inside this lonesome sparrow's fall
  Inside the songs of our defeat, they sing of treaties broken
  Inside this army's in retreat, we hide beneath the thunder's call
    Outside the rain keeps falling
  Outside the drums are calling
  Outside the flood won't wait
  Outside they're hammering down the gate
    Love is the child of an endless war
  Love is an open wound still raw
  Love is a shameless banner unfurled
  Love's an explosion,
  Love is the fire of the world
  Love is a violent star
  A tide of destruction
  Love is an angry scar
  A violation, a mutilation, capitulation, love is annihilation.
    Inside the failures of the light, the night is wrapped around me
  Inside my eyes deny their sight, you'd never find me in this place
  Inside we're hidden from the moonlight, we shift between the shadows
  Inside the compass of the night, inside the memory of your face
    Outside the walls are shaking
  Inside the dogs are waking
  Outside the hurricane won't wait
  Inside they're howling down the gate
    Love is the child of an endless war
  Love is an open wound still raw
  Love is a shameless banner unfurled
  Love's an explosion,
  Love is the fire at the end of the world
  Love is a violent star
  A tide of destruction
  Love is an angry scar
  The pain of instruction
  Love is a violation, a mutilation, capitulation,
  Love is annihilation.
    I climb this tower inside my head
  A spiral stair above my bed
  I dream the stairs don't ask me why,
  I throw myself into the sky
    Love me like a baby, love me like an only child
  Love me like an ocean; love me like a mother mild
  Love me like a father, love me like a prodigal son
  Love me like a sister, love me like the world has just begun
  Love me like a prodigy, love me like an idiot boy,
  Love me like an innocent, love me like your favorite toy
  Love me like a virgin, love me like a courtesan,
  Love me like a sinner, love me like a dying man.
    Annihilate me, infiltrate me, incinerate me, accelerate me, mutilate me, inundate me, violate me, implicate me, vindicate me, devastate me
    Love me like a parasite, love me like a dying sun
  Love me like a criminal, love me like a man on the run
    Radiate me, subjugate me, incubate me, recreate me, demarcate me, educate me, punctuate me, evaluate me, conjugate me, impregnate me, designate me, humiliate me, segregate me, opiate me, calibrate me, replicate me