The city gates at twilight   And a red ship sinking   Behind winter's grey wall   Ice in the wind   But a fire in the embers   Of my heart   As darkness falls   In a candlelit room   Where your eyes are laughing   Smoking in the red chair   And nothing in the world   'cept the beating of my heart   Against the nerves of the air      And I know there's a light   At the end of the tunnel   'cause I taste it on your lips   And I feel a weight   That can bend me double   You lift it with your fingertips   So often it happens   That words prove useless   In the face of how it feels   So it is as the mystery of love   Keeps growing   The more my heart reveals      Temptations endless whispers   Try to keep it in perspective   So much to distract   Walking on a wire   While your juggling desire   It's all part of your balancing act   And it gets hard to know   Just what you believe   As the argument rages on   But for all of the talk   It's only true to say   That if you have no hope   There is none      A tangle of tongues   Flesh flowers and thistles   Of conscience, spittle and skin   We can't change the past   So we'll raise this cup to our lips   And drink it all in   And meantime back in civilisation   The rain is cold as steel   But the mystery of love   It just keep growing   The more my heart reveals      As sure as the rose   The bright day blooms   As surely still it fades   And the night kindles stars   On empty winds   And ghosts along the collonades   And slow but sure   The sands are falling   As the bridge burns   Beneath the wheel   And the mystery of love   It just keeps growing   The more my heart reveals   The more my heart reveals