Roses, take your cover—
Wild beauty travels south;
Truth will out but always speaks
From both sides of her mouth
She’s a stone in water
She’s a rising bell—
The invention of another
I make no assumptions what she’ll tell
For now, the word is moving through, sliding in beside of you;
You disappear –the both, you do:
One into the other
The jailer’s singing down the halls his lonesome song of love; tapping like a miner with his keys on pipes above
A lantern revolution
We’re bright without a line— but I make no assumptions now just what my light will find
For now, the dark is moving through, sliding in beside of you;
You disappear –the both, you do:
One into the other
The dead will close their bottle eyes of their own stubborn accord, escaping by the roof the darkest pleasures of the lord
I pay my debt to mercy
With all of it come my way— I make no assumptions now what more I’m due today
For now, time is moving through, sliding in beside of you;
You disappear –the both, you do: one into the other
Now and Never was written by Joe Henry.
Now and Never was produced by Joe Henry.
Joe Henry released Now and Never on Sun Oct 01 2017.