Lyrics

Bread of Angels

Just like the cat on your shoulder
the ruby in your eye
I fell in love in an instant
with that little girl inside you grinning--

We met upon the altar
I was not ashamed to sing
for that bread of angels.

You may have spooked me just a little bit
looking like you saw me beneath the chandelier
melting through me like mercury
I thought I could be free?

Could have been rapture,
it could have been that bread of angels.

It was about that running down the aisle
and the child with wide-set eyes
stumbling in her halo
with the bundle that she carried you, she carried you?

If I were sure, I wouldn?t be sane
you would not be single
tugging at the fist in my Sunday dress
I was used to it?

We met upon the altar
I was not ashamed to sing
for that bread of angels.