Name: Abelard and Heloise
Duration: P00H04M33S
Description: Love is the abyss

Abelard and Heloise

from Holden and Jane Holding Hands EP by Aphrodite Lion

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Love is the abyss

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Abelard and Heloise
Dear Philintus your heart may be broken
By love’s inequities administered in bit-part tokens
But you have truly never known woe
Until you’ve looked into my soul

I was the greatest in all matters of philosophy
Logic and debate were my special competencies
But one sighting of her Grecian form
Turned the workings of my genius brain into worms

So go forth into the abyss
Where love licks the ego
Into the most peculiar of fits
Love was my inspiring Apollo
And though the lyre strums hollow
I would have always have followed
The road

If I did not oblige the foe to yield
Yet did I never basely quit the field

Beloved Abelard I speak through the veil
Its flimsy premise couldn’t keep my spirit in chains
I lie every time I kneel down to pray
Yes I’ll caress those hidden sutures
Again and again

Oh but to have been your mistress
Would have made me yours the more
Than the wife who just sits
But rarely visits
Your mind would have focused in time
Free from restrictions and duty
Our lives would meld in secret beauty
The divine

Oh my loved lord our fatal marriage draws
On thee this doom and I the guilty cause
If thoust goest the extremes of fate to prove
I’ll share that fate and expiate thus my love

Is the abyss
It licks and tricks the ego
Into something that has forgotten wit
Twas my inspiring Apollo
And though this lyre strums hollow
Still I would always have followed
That road

So go forth
Into the abyss
Where love licks the ego
Into the most foolish of fits
But your mind would have focused in time
Free from restrictions and duty
Our minds would meld in secret beauty
The divine

If I did not oblige the foe to yield
Yet did I never basely quit the field
Love is the abyss, love is the abyss
Oh my loved lord our fatal marriage draws
On thee this doom and I the guilty cause
Love is the abyss
Love, love, love

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from Holden and Jane Holding Hands EP, released August 26, 2012
Written by Anne Graham

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Aphrodite Lion are Anne Graham & Mike Tinsley making dirty, witty, spunky, crude, sinister, curious layers of music available to the world since 2011.

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