Do you remember all of those pledges
That we pledged in the passionate night
Ah they're soiled now, they're torn at the edges

Like moths on a still yellow light
No penance serves to renew them
No massive transfusions of trust

Why not even revenge can undo them
So twisted these vows and so crushed
And you say you've been humbled in love

Cut down in your love
Forced to kneel in the mud next to me
Ah but why so bitterly turn from the one

Who kneels there as deeply as thee

Children have takes these pledges

They have ferried them out of the past
Oh beyond all the graves and the hedges
Where love must go hiding at last

And here where there is no description
Oh here in the moment at hand
No sinner need rise up forgiven

No victim need limp to the stand

And you say you've been humbled in love...


And look dear heart, look at the virgin
Look how she welcomes him into her gown

Yes, and mark how the stranger's cold armour
Dissolves like a star falling down
Why trade this vision for desire

When you may have them both
You will never see a man this naked
I will never hold a woman this close


And you say you've been humbled in love...