When you prey in silence
And see our Jesus stagger
Awake! Take a perfumed candle
And use life like a dagger
I'm your accidental protégé
The gift, the blood, the thrown away
The silver chain has broken?
Goals and dreams fulfill
With emptiness with instinct
With impurity and will
I'm your accidental protégé
The grave of love, the yesterday
In this, my year of three winters
Where orchards fade, fade and fall
Like the loaf of love's new bake
Fallen, beautiful, adored?
I'm your accidental protégé
The gift, the blood, the thrown away
I thought I found a paradise
But, paradise came and wept
Like the wind through the, winter's woods
It cowed and took a breath
I'm your accidental protégé
The grave of love, the yesterday
I'm your accidental protégé
The gift, the blood, the thrown away