On a Wedding Anniversary

John Cale

Compositor: John Cale

The sky is torn across
This ragged anniversary of two
Who moved for three years in tune
Down the long walks of their vows.

Now their love lies a loss
And love and his patients roar on a chain;
From every true or crater
Carrying cloud. death strikes their house.

Too late in the wrong rain
They come together whom their love parted:
The windows pour into their heart
And the doors burn in their brain.