Jade

She came as lolita dressed as venus And adorned with stars With her deft allusion and a universe between us She showed me her skill with words and I showed her my scars Don't mistake kindness for affection, she said Don't ever let the attention go to your head No more let death divide what life can join together But just remember there is nothing that can last forever And Jade is benediction She is silent prayer And Jade is exaltation The colours that I wear And Jade is contradiction She is naked but never bare Jade is a work, a work of fiction Nothing more than castles in the air The shorter the leash the harder I will pull My glass is empty when once it was full I wish I could be Jesus and turn water into wine 'Cause all my grapes have withered, withered on the vine With a smile like mercury, elusive and fey There's a beauty in the night that can't be seen by day She's a barbed wire angel insatiable and cruel She destroys my resistance like the most dazzling jewel And Jade is apostasy Abandoned faith and hope Jade is hypocrisy She is kaleidoscope And Jade is precious stone Impervious and rare And Jade will never atone For the flowers in her fair And Jade never sleeps alone There's always someone there With Jade To rest their head on her thigh To make her moist when she is dry To hold the breath of every sigh To pledge their life and how to die To kiss the sleep from her eyes To dry the tears when she cries And Jade is all and Jade is none And Jade is moon and she is sun And Jade is you and everyone And she is me and and all I've done And Jade is lost and she is won And Jade is the bullet shot from your gun