May your velvet casket never close
Let this river take us where the river knows

You were born to be my gallows
You can't kill the light
Nor lose your shadow
But in the blackest of night
We can lose all this sorrow

My baby knows how it rock and rolls
Bless the ash grey bones of the blood red rose

You were born to be my gallows
You can't kill the light
Nor lose your shadow
But in the blackest of night
We can lose all this sorrow

We can lose all this sorrow
Lose this sorrow
This sorrow