Millefleurs Lyrics

Did you come out here to find me

Crawling the far hills naked?

Cos even your reproach clothes me in

A millefleurs raiment

You fed me daily

From your windowsill

I kept it vacant

So you hung around

Like suet in the snow

Even then, you were waiting

Yours is the heart

Ours were meant to be knit to

So you wove yourself into

The weave we knew

At your garment's edge

We were unraveling

Every flower in our crown

was withering

Until you hemmed us in behind and before

Back in the embroidery of

Your millefleurs

(So come on)

Bring us back into the embroidery of

Your millefleurs

(So come on)

Bring us back into the embroidery

And in overflowing tenderness

You've tended

The garden we were given charge of

We leased it out, and tenants bled it

And by rights you could have us die by night

Outside its hedges

But you're patient as a fountain in a park

Where one bridegroom waits for his wedding

Yours are the arms

We were meant to fall into

Where everything false about us just

Falls right through

Toward your garment's edge

We come staggering

Our incurable wound kept us asking

For who could hem us in

Behind and before back in

The embroidery of

Your millefleurs

So come on

Bring us back into the embroidery of

Your millefleurs

Bring us back into the embroidery

So come on, bring us back

So come on, bring us back into the

Embroidery

I was there on the spear tip

You were a candle lit

Piercing the darkness

And that I survived the impact

When our lives crashed

Like intended targets

Is a cause for wonder and

Now I rest in beds of obedience

And you cast my sins on the winds

That blow the very farthest

Yours is the voice

All the world comes home to

You are the Holy One

With whom we have to do

Around your garment's edge

The seas are gathering

While swallows and seraphim

Are swarming, yet you've drawn near

To us in human form

Marvelous! Are your works O Lord

So come on, bring us back

So come on, bring us back in

So come on

Bring us back into the embroidery of

Your millefleurs

Bring us back into the embroidery