I've felt fingertips, soft upon my lips
an inferno at my core ignite
Fought the longing of the day
for the coming of the night
When that flame of lust so mightily
would dance in wild abandon
Both temptation and desire unleashed
their silken rage to softly deafen
The call of conscience over time
for memories born outside the pain
To shine again come dawn's sweet chorus
if truth would only lend its name
To passions breathless, midnight pledge
of eternity, fidelity and only this
Have deed follow word, to measure worth
let heart and spirit marry in a kiss
For fingertips on yearning lips can lie
so have I had forever promised me
A heart declared my souls protector
opened the wound it swore I'd never see
And claiming then it had to be: departed
well short of eternity, leaving me alone
All words emptied of meaning, my faith bleeding
doubting every touch of all I'd known
So some the end and there's no return
to first nights hearts were free to share
What's done is done, the world still turns
though tears rain down on souls stripped bare
Yet still, the pledge of a breathless midnight
remains to spite my last eternity's demise
And I feel myself give in again, to a smile again
and a kindling desire, it reawakens
to dance again beneath these skies

I've seen the strangest pieces
come perfectly together
And what seemed the strongest bonds
come totally undone
Love: I've known it lost
and known it won

Under star and under sun.