[Refrain]
Yeah, you've gone from perfect to divine
You've gone from perfect to divine
You've gone from perfect to divine
You've gone from perfect to divine
You've gone from perfect to divine
You've gone from perfect to divine
[Verse 1]
I said, time heals
And time forgets
Your pots, pans, your garbage
And all of your photographs
Have been thrown out into the street
And I stood back in shock
‘Cause now your shit, it just looked so lost
Without you
I broke a window, busted your steering lock
And I cleared out of town
Without you
[Verse 2]
I said that time heals
And time forgets
But time arrived at motel ceiling fans
That just hang there above your empty head
After the rent is paid, and your heart's gone dead
Your friends have gone, you have a hunted face
Outside the heaving fields are draped as heavy as lead
Where the dead wood aches for reprieve from a fate
That seems so fleeting at a distance 'til that distance is tamed
I tell you, time does not heal
And it don't forget, no
[Chorus]
It just drowns you when you're thirsty and you're lame
It's when you kneel to drink the water and the water is flame
It is flame
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
I said, time heals
And time forgets
It's doing fine without you
Your radiator still overheats
And now your starter motor just refuses to turn
I tell you, nothing's really changed
But I am not the same
And, Lord, you take up all my time
Yeah, you take up all my time
[Refrain]
Yeah, you've gone from perfect to divine
You've gone from perfect to divine
You've gone from perfect to divine
Yeah, you've gone from perfect to divine
You've gone from perfect to divine
You've gone from perfect to divine
[Bridge]
I never understood, although you tried
You tried to explain while you were alive
What had turned the face I'd loved
Into a stranger's
I'm staring up into a perfect night
Everything is so wrong, but the time is right
And for the first time now, I'm looking right at you
[Chorus]
I am here now, and it does not have a name
It’s where you kneel to drink the water and the water is flame
Yeah, it is flame
Flame