The greatest papers of Aquinas I have read But nothing he had said was finer Than the words of faith she brought into our bed The rhetoric of skeptics, oh I have it all by heart From Percy Shelley down to Marx – they're driving us apart It's my comfort and my hopeshe cried, but I don't understand 'Cause I'm terrified my life could rest in someone else's hands You took that halo off your head - and said you'd never leave me So why not hang those angel wings above my bed this evening But you can talk to me if you need to know there's someone there I'll sing you a love song the way you'd say a prayer But nothing lasts forever, and nothing good goes on without a fight Everybody dies, and baby that's – alright Your psychic and your séance may not bring us any closer As a ghost I'd tell you nothing that I couldn't tell you now Supplication for salvation, playing helpless for the host My love I cannot tell you how it breaks my heart to see you bow Hang your head, talk to the dead and cry about your sins I know that nothing Jesus said could make you laugh again You can learn from your mistakes my love and leave them in the past I never said it would be easy – but then again you never asked But you can talk to me if you need to know there's someone there I'll sing you a love song the way you'd say a prayer But nothing lasts forever, and nothing good goes on without a fight Everybody dies, and baby that's – alright Because I'm not afraid of death and I am not a-tired of living I have tempted, I have sinned and I don't want to be forgiven By a God, or a King who thinks I owe him anything and threatens Hell If I should question or rebel And you know I would trade my immortal soul for your hand to hold No God I've ever heard of good at keeping out the cold If Heaven has a place for you, they'll judge you in the end As a lover and a friend and not on whether you pretend He knows about your hunger, that he knows about your thirst He knows about the drugs you took and how they made it worse He knows about your heart and how you fix it when it breaks And how this city makes you lazy – and the world just makes you wait But you can talk to me if you need to know there's someone there I'll sing you a love song the way you'd say a prayer But nothing lasts forever, and nothing good goes on without a fight Everybody dies, and, baby, that's – alright But you can talk to me if you need to know there's someone there I'll sing you a love song the way you'd say a prayer But nothing lasts forever, and nothing good goes on without a fight Everybody dies, and, baby, that's alright And oh, baby, that's alright