[ti:John My Beloved] [ar:Vérité] [al:John My Beloved] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]John My Beloved - VÉRITÉ [00:00.24]Are we to speak first day of the week [00:04.57] [00:05.44]Stumbling words at the bar [00:09.11] [00:11.16]Beauty blue eyes my order of fries [00:15.58] [00:16.51]Long Island kindness and wine [00:19.75] [00:21.93]Beloved of John I get it all wrong [00:26.49] [00:27.25]I read you for some kind of poem [00:30.71] [00:32.84]Covered in lines the fossils I find [00:37.35] [00:38.41]Have they no life of their own [00:41.61] [00:43.70]So can we pretend sweetly [00:49.14]Before the mystery ends [00:53.39]I am a man with a heart that offends [00:57.89]With it's lonely and greedy demands [01:02.72] [01:04.16]There's only a shadow of me [01:07.57]In a manner of speaking I'm dead [01:11.86] [01:16.52]Such a waste your beautiful face [01:21.18] [01:21.99]Stumbling carpet arise [01:25.34] [01:27.33]Go follow your gem your white feathered friend [01:31.93] [01:32.90]Icarus point to the sun [01:36.29] [01:38.32]If history speaks of two baby teeth [01:42.95] [01:43.66]I'm painting the hills blue and red [01:47.08] [01:48.98]They said Beware [01:51.26] [01:51.82]And Lord hear my prayer [01:54.36]I've wasted my throes on your head [01:58.10] [02:00.11]So can we be friends sweetly [02:05.52]Before the mystery ends [02:09.84]I love you more than the world can contain [02:14.69]In it's lonely and ramshackle head [02:19.19] [02:20.56]There's only a shadow of me [02:23.92]In a manner of speaking I'm dead [02:28.20] [02:33.15]Ah ah ah [02:37.66] [02:38.40]Ah ah ah [02:42.85] [02:43.74]Ah ah ah [02:48.37] [02:49.28]Ah ah ha [02:54.79]I'm holding my breath [02:57.37]My tongue on your chest [02:59.32] [03:00.05]What can be said of my heart [03:03.49] [03:05.62]If history speaks the kiss on my cheek [03:10.25] [03:10.87]Where there remains but a mark [03:14.46] [03:16.36]Beloved my John so I'll carry on [03:21.44] [03:21.98]Counting my cards down to one [03:25.71] [03:27.36]And when I am dead come visit my bed [03:31.99] [03:32.60]My fossil is bright in the sun [03:38.03]So can we contend peacefully [03:43.68]Before my history ends [03:47.94]Jesus I need you be near me come shield me [03:52.67]From fossils that fall on my head [03:57.64] [03:58.69]There's only a shadow of me [04:02.11]In a manner of speaking I'm dead