Over the Rhine - Green-Clouded Swallowtail lyrics

We wake each morning in a foreign country We walk the outer edges of our room I think of you in terms of buried treasure A jilted bride emerging from a tomb Oh your shadow is still breathing The close and holy darkness will unveil Mother she's not dead she's only sleeping Green green-clouded swallowtail I've learned to love the feel of this barbed wire The skin that separates your heart from mine It tears the fabric of my ordinary And rips the cloudy curtain of my sky Oh your shadow is still breathing The close and holy darkness will unveil Mother she's not dead she's only sleeping Green green-clouded swallowtail So sing the hallelujah chorus of the drunkard You're the woman blowing kisses to the jail And dreaming of a different kind of freedom The breath of God upon your tattered sail Oh your shadow is still breathing All this darkness it will not prevail Mother she's not dead she's only sleeping Green green-clouded swallowtail