"Advent"
	JACKOPIERCE
	From the Album "Woman as Salvation" & "Decade"


	In the dresser he kept all the letters
	All the prizes of lovers gone wrong
	As the rain sped down, the new love he found
	Lay sleeping while he wrote this song

	And the blue candle burned in the small room
	As he stared at the form in his bed
	Like a flower bloomed, she lit up the room
	And his life had begun again

	[Chorus]
	Time is not such a boundary
	Not a river that cannot be crossed
	And her advent into his small kingdom
	Has cancelled the loss

	Mutual accolades and freedom
	What great love can grow from respect
	His hands on her sides, an ethereal ride
	It was like they had never left

	In a small museum in a small town
	He found the jewels he would use for her crown
	The blonde queen and king, she would wear his ring
	And he would sing her songs.

	[Chorus]

	But her beauty is more than her long hair
	Or her face or her lips or her skin
	The royal gatekeeper to her kingdom
	Has let him in