Before - Dave Hause

There’s a place I’d go

Before it all broke down

Where we carried on and carried the fire

But managed not to burn the sea or the town

Before we sharpened up our teeth

Before the crash and the shame

When I could still hear your voice

When your tongue still knew my name

But you left me there

With just a memory

How do I feel your love

Adrift on this plastic plague of a sea?

Is this all of the grace you’ll allow?

I would kneel down low

Under stained glass light

To taste your body to taste your blood

Then count the minutes till we’d reunite

Before the gulf turned black

Before this town got too close to the flames

When I would wait at the door like a dog

For you to wrap your tongue 'round my name

But you left me here

With just a memory

How do I feel your love

Adrift on this plastic plague of a sea

Is this all of the grace you allow?

I begged you before and I’m begging you now

Will the slaughter convince you to stay?

The cross wouldn’t hold you but this time you won’t get away

I’ll leave you there

Just a memory

You will not feel my love

Adrift on this plastic sickening sea

This is all of the grace I’ll allow

I begged you before, I’m not begging you now

The slaughter convinced me to stay

But this time you won’t get away

You won’t get away