Do you remember all of those pledges   That we pledged in the passionate night   Ah they're soiled now, they're torn at the edges   Like moths on a still yellow light   No penance serves to renew them   No massive transfusions of trust   Why not even revenge can undo them   So twisted these vows and so crushed      And you say you've been humbled in love   Cut down in your love   Forced to kneel in the mud next to me   Ah but why so bitterly turn from the one   Who kneels there as deeply as thee      Children have taken these pledges   They have ferried them out of the past   Oh beyond all the graves and the hedges   Where love must go hiding at last   And here where there is no description   Oh here in the moment at hand   No sinner need rise up forgiven   No victim need limp to the stand      And you say you've been humbled in love   Cut down in your love   Forced to kneel in the mud next to me   Ah but why so bitterly turn from the one   Who kneels there as deeply as thee      And look dear heart, look at the virgin how she welcomes him into her gown   Yes, and mark how the stranger's cold armour   Dissolves like a star falling down   Why trade this vision for desire   When you may have them both   You will never see a man this naked   I will never hold a woman this close      And you say you've been humbled in love   Cut down in your love   Forced to kneel in the mud next to me   Ah but why so bitterly turn from the one   Who kneels there as deeply as thee