[Verse 1]
I was just bony hands
As cold as a winter pole
You held a warm stone out
New flowing blood to hold
Oh, what a contrast you were
To the brutes in the halls
My timid young fingers held
A decent animal

[Chorus 1]
Over the ramparts you tossed
The scent of your skin and some foreign flowers
Tied to a brick, sweet as a song
The years have been short but the days were long

[Verse 2]
Cool of a temperate breeze
From dark skies to wet grass
We fell in a field, it seems now
A thousand summers passed
When our kite lines first crossed
We tied 'em into knots
But to finally fly apart
We had to cut them off
[Chorus 2]
Since then it's been a book you read in reverse
So you understand less as the pages turn
Or a movie so crass and awkwardly cast
That even I could be the star

[Bridge]
I don't look back much as a rule
And all this way before murder was cool
But your memory is here and I'd like it to stay
Warm light, on a winter's day

[Harmonica Solo: James Mercer]

[Chorus 3]
Over the ramparts you tossed
The scent of your skin and some foreign flowers
Tied to a brick, sweet as a song
The years have seemed short but the days go slowly by
Two loose kites fallen from the sky
Drawn to the ground in an end to flight