Please Show Me Your Wings

 

You must be an angel

Please show me your wings

‘Cause I’ve basked in your light

Through celestial dreams

Blanketed by your warmth

All safe and serene

You must be an angel

Please show me your wings

 

You’ve shown me

How to take

How to give

How to be

How to love

How to live

How to dream

 

You must be an angel

Please show me your wings

A nightmare in hell

‘Til a depth that I reach

Where the wind brings you in

And the air about you sings

You must be an angel

Please show me your wings

 Before I met you

I was stuck

Stuck on a hell-evator

Rode only one way

 

Down

 

See you later, alligator

And Dante the Doorman

Announced each level

 

Down

 

Each level begins

With the next of the

Seven deadly sins

Then ends it with how

Their suffering begins

 

With no warning 

The hell-evator doors burst open

Shook Dante to the core

Stood wide-eyed and jaw opened

He had not recognized the floor

 

Then you stepped in

The doorman stepped aside

Involuntarily 

But in doing so

Revealed the single button

 

Down

 

The only button for this ride

‘Til you revealed another

Dusted its seven layers of shell

Revealed an arrow pointing up

The only way out of this hell

 

The button now shines

A reflection in your eyes

A shiny new button

A fresh new start

Compared to the eternal wear

Upon its button counterpart

 

Unknown to me

First time clean

First time seen

First time pressed

First time in eternity

First time blessed

To find a new button pressed

A new button pressed

In this elevator

With nowhere to go but

 

Up

 

Has me finally going to go

 

Up

 

Now I’ve gotta know what is

 

Up

It’s you

You must be an angel

Please show me your wings

You’ve saved me from hell’s

Damnation destinies

Now blanketed by your warmth

All safe and serene

You must be an angel

Please show me your wings

 

You’ve shown me

How to take

How to give

How to be

How to love

How to live

How to dream

 

You must be an angel

Please show me your wings

I’ll share with you

My hopes

My dreams

I’ll share with you

My everything

You must be an angel

Please show me your wings