Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Progress of Love, artist - Joe Henry.
Date of issue: 13.08.2009
Song language: English
Progress of Love |
This is the progress of love that I fear |
You retreat just as my defeat finally nears |
What’s only to lose, myself I volunteer |
So all of your spoils could be mine |
Life takes root in the deepest dark ground |
Where bones blood and honor have been trampled down |
And beaten like ponies and driven to town |
Where reason is traded for rhyme |
Your sailor is my lawyer |
Your seamstress suits my king |
But you are the mouth of the river |
The star of my every dream |
Some young punk cut a wire, the sun fell in the yard |
We gathered round it, and we kicked it hard |
We passed around flowers and wine and we cried oh Lord |
Now here comes the night |
Our every word now we talk in blues |
A hymn to the life we’re all bound to lose |
We’d die for more but we still refuse |
To live without a fight |
Your sailor is my lawyer |
Your seamstress suits my king |
But you are the mouth of the river |
At the start of my every dream |
We say «never forget"and mean «never forgive» |
No, never as long as ever we live |
It offends all our dead to surrender this |
To even think we might go on |
And freedom doesn’t need to be free when it sells |
Like ocean waves offered from inside of shells |
We bet the farm trying to ring its bells |
While love still goes for a song |
Your sailor is my lawyer |
Your seamstress suits my king |
But you are the mouth of the river |
At the start of my every dream |