Staying Together For The Children

Like an evangelist in the Coliseum
Who has to choose between love and freedom
Or like a hunter in the city of the violent wind
I recognise the end but I've never known where to begin

Our love was once like an undiscovered country
Now we’re staying together
Staying together
Staying together for the children

I thought about that sacred verse
Jesus emptying Judas's purse
Now when night falls In this infected house
A smiling rival instead of a spouse

Our love was once like an undiscovered country
Now we're staying together
Staying together
Staying together for the children

With your tattoo like a bruise and your eyes like bloodstains
You fell to your knees in The Church of Saint John Coltrane
The patron saint of raising hell
And of the ruthless universe in every blood cell

Our love was once like an undiscovered country
Now we’re staying together
Staying together
Now we're staying together for the children