Oh God! (Psalms 61 & 13) by David Bowden


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Oh God! (Psalms 61 & 13)
by David Bowden

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61 & 13: Oh God!

61: My body crumbles before you My crying and bumbling pours out like waves bowing as shores do. I lap up oceans of gasoline seas of kerosene Transforming words into sparks thus igniting a beacon of faith in the dark May I be aromatic as you listen to my enigmatic transmission my tongue burns as incense, rolling in my mouth's insisting wet blanket making unmentionable motions I'm blowing smoke.

13: You hold me like water in open hands rushing endlessly down the channeled beds in your palms, watering the garden of your amnesia. Your hand has undergone anesthesia. You prolong the pain, refusing to seize me as a skeptic Refusing to provide antiseptic to my wounds I sing the right tunes Countless sins I refuse Abstaining from boos, drugs, and tattoos Yet you leave no clues of your existence This is my last prayer of insistence that you break through the mystics or my persistent prayers and distant stares will no longer employ this body's assistance Sometimes I forget that I'm just blowing.

13 & 61: Smoke.

61: out the chimney in the house of your trinket may my exhalations be fragrant Naked you see me no amount of promising could instill in you a favoring Instead you need only my vow to be betrothed to you now bowing in my infancy cowering at your infinite affinity for a recanting truth for I can't see where lying while lying at your feet gotten me to Flagrant oaths be forgotten a Vagrant's home like a promise It won't keep

61 & 13: Long

13: enough I've waited craning my neck crinkling my eyes But your disguise of darkness the 4-wall lies of your existence the fiction religion of your insistence this long distance adoption from an unseen father this emptiness I auction off to the highest bidding caller no longer will I bear the weight of your silence I can't stand to wait for you to revel yourself to retracted eyelids I can't keep on chanting a song about a God to whom I belong If you can't give up a breath, sigh, or yawn for me to hold on to Much like a life that has done no wrong such innocence won't keep

13 &61: Long

61: is the empty wall between your lips and earth's puckered kiss but no distance will provide sufficient resistance to the ballistic sound of my crying enlistment into the ranks of your ears Years may pass without one hint of your existence but relentless to adore you, relentlessly I'll endure your silence twilight messages I'll massage out of the passages of my mouth spouted out incantations, blessed by my tongue's demands pressed into hands, whispered into breaths and blown to the wind

13: When will my head and heart brain and bowels intelligence and emotion stop wresting with the fact that the words whispered within the rounds of hopeful prayers and disappointed stares at an invisible in-visitable friend are simply blown to the wind

13 & 61: Day after day sorrow borrows hope from tomorrow and the rays of today's interest swelter the shade

13: and I have no shelter

61 (at the same time): but you are my shelter

For your sake I forsake all foreign foretastes of dangers forebaders For in you and your name lies a fortune of fortitude I'm fortified in forgiveness Forged in your form The foreman of forever

61 & 13: I'm burning

13: my eyes at the wick last ditch seers wax tipped tears melting cylinders of hope: self-devouring betrothed to the smoke of my incinerated dowry

61: Hourly I crawl to you I weep on our bed of vows wetting the feathered pillows of your wings covered by steel sheets on a metal mattress My master, mistress, and fortress I rest on

61 &13: you.

13: hide in darkness. Enlighten my eyes Give light to disguise Make light of the lies of your silence Look on me! And

13 &61: Answer.

61: my one request arrest my life in your love resist the death in me today to live another one that for the rest of my days I may quest to sing the praise of

61 & 13: your name.

13: is poison on my lips though it slays me I will continue to sip the farther you hide the deeper I drink the darker my eyes the longer I sink into the death of our life together

13 & 61: For your love is never failing and this affair keeps me

13: ever wailing.

13 & 61: Amen.


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