In a suite of armour we rust
Like the cool decay of both of us
In the flesh of another love
In the veins of a lost cause

Through the walls of an ancient town
I heard the sigh of a broken man
Like the flesh of another love
Or the veins of a lost cause

Through hunger, death and high waters
Through carnivals of thunder
Through glory and all that they warned me
Through the days when the cannon fire rained
And the lost friends
And the money we spent
The songs that we sang and words that we meant
I watched our cool decay