Lay down my shield shaped like a woman

Take off my armour made for a man

Let go of the thought of anyone

Who claims to know who I am



Lay down the sword I named a lie

Put down the dagger I called the truth

So that nothing blurs my choice

Between to live or to die



In return for the kiss of life

Kiss of life



I remeber the taste of our kiss, babe, so

bittersweet

You bite your lip, make me taste the blood

A rose between two pairs of sharp, white teeth



In return for the kiss of life

Kiss of life



Man dies

Woman dies

But the kiss lives

It passes from lip to lip

>From age to age



In return for the kiss of life

Kiss of life



I recall the story of another sacrifice

Abraham and Isaac and a lack of vice

Pick up the bible from my desk

I'm ready to read all about it