World's Decay

And what is it for a girl to fall in love?

Does she hear the angels sing?

Does she see them as she does a dove?

And do they take her on their wing?

What does love do to a girl?

Take her by force to be a woman?

In the way she walks and dance and swirl,

Until her heart lies in hands of man,

A true man, a world of his own,

A world to destroy hers at heel,

And if she'd ever be alone,

Can he make her his own for real?

And love for a woman is stars at rise,

And love for a woman is a sacred place,

And love for her never reach demise,

For her love shows all on her face,

And there he knows and he is true,

And then she knows not why he's here,

And if he ever comes in view,

Her peace is thrown in bits to fear,

And darkness swells like spring in bloom,

So that her fears become her home,

He's all the devils who chant in gloom,

He's all the angels she prayed to come,

And if she betrays her soul for shame,

She'd still love how he touched her soul,

She loves his ice, he loves her pain,

and none she spares for him at all,

So what is love for a girl like me?

Oh what is love for a man like him?

If nothing can set our world free,

If angels sing a dirge that dim,

And where will his love ever take me?

And what will it ever take from him?

And what if it will forever break me

Just for a chance to rescue him?

A love is a young lady's price, yes,

A love for a man, is debt to pay,

For making a woman out of a young miss,

What's love for her but a world's decay?