Love Is Enough - Joe Henry
Lincoln Street is howling
It's empty growing colder
The night has come on limping and
It's bleeding from the shoulder
Headlights fake a prison break
Of snow that rages and dies
It's lost its will upon this hill
As one time so did I
But here comes everybody
The rounders and the nuns
The poets sweeping sleeper cars
The butcher read his songs
Here comes the restitution
We'd all but given up
This evening we're content believing
That love will be enough
Air is what I need
But I try to breathe you in
Thinking I can get at what I must
Beneath your skin
Your veins are humming wire
Rushing fire to your face
I feel it flush against my own
A pulse that I can taste
And here comes everybody
The tyrant and his crew
His most loyal traitors
And they whisper this to you
Here comes the restitution
You'd all but given up
This evening we're content believing
That love will be enough
The fire escape is folded
Like the cradle of an arm
Our dread so deep
We've learned to keep it
Near without alarm
But every fear is like the prayer
You've learned to shout out loud
From your lips to God's ear
It turns the face of every crowd
And here comes everybody
The closet renegades
The weary hungry soldiers
From the children's lost crusade
Here comes the restitution
We'd all but given up
This evening we're content believing
That love will be enough
