Staying Together for the Children

Like an evangelist in the Coliseum,
Who has to choose between love and freedom,
Like a hunter in the city of the violent wind,
I recognise the end but I've never known where to begin.

Our love was once like an undiscovered country,
Now we're staying together,
Staying together,
Staying together for the children.

I thought about that sacred verse,
Jesus emptying Judas's purse,
Now when night falls In this infected house,
A smiling rival instead of a spouse.

Our love was once like an undiscovered country,
Now we're staying together,
Staying together,
Staying together for the children.

With your tattoo like a bruise and your eyes like bloodstains,
You fell to your knees in The Church of Saint John Coltrane,
The patron saint of raising hell,
And of the ruthless universe in every blood cell.

Our love was once like an undiscovered country,
Now we're staying together,
Staying together,
Now we're staying together for the children.