Sacred Ground - Over the Rhine

Love me like a memory held too long

Like the need to feel some forgotten song

Kiss me to chills like there’s only me

Like it’s hard to kill the last cottonwood tree

Love me later when the stars fall down

A burning light for a wedding gown

They stole the blood right out of this ground

They’d still kick a flower when it’s down

Help me trace the scars on mountains

The sun that sets in a bloody fountain

Take me home and lay me down

On the hungry earth (Love me, love me)

On the sacred ground

Love me like the breath you held too deep

Like the need you feel to lay still beneath

Leave me with teeth marks on my skin

Like some holy spirit’s tryna get in

Love me like a rumor you can’t outlive

Like the deepest cut you’ll ever forgive

They stole my blood right out of this ground

They’d still kick a flower when it’s down

Help me trace the scars on mountains

The sun that sets in a bloody fountain

Take me home and lay me down

On the hungry earth (Love me, love me)

On the sacred ground