On a hill this is no dream Much as I would wish it so Much as I would wish the earth itself To bloom in black, to overflow And is Heaven coughing blood? Or is this just rain that burns my cheeks? Cause I swear I've not been crying But I've crying here for weeks And all my days will just be numbers Despite my losing count These tears are oxygen and hydrogen In changeless and ordained amounts 'Cause the answer was yes or no There were only two ways to go Still I lost the moment to transgress When I answered no or yes I will make this very clear I will do this only once I am gazing at your holiness I am standing still and facing front So I've come back to repent And I've come back to reclaim Some infinitude of silence The unspeaking of my name Will you grow this hill to mountains? Will the mountains fall to space? And each degree of every circle Paint a forest on my face? There were never words for yes or no Through the Earth above, through the Earth below And no borderland to repossess When I answered no or Yester-day-break-down-cast-strate-forward-plate-glass-eye-land-scape-ex-tra-men-dis-figure-head-strong-hold-over-driv-inferno-no-no-no-no-no