Charming One

Band: The Waiting

Album: Blue Belly Sky

Verse 1

The sweat is falling from my brow

Under the heavy heat of day

Survey the situation now

Dream of a garden far away

I saw you red and ripe and wrong

So snug and deadly in that tree

Your sweet attraction was so strong

The taste of death delicious to me

When I listened to the tempter

Who seemed colorful and wise

I was driven from perfection

And now I realize

I Should have left you there

To glisten in the sun

You were a charming one

Verse 2

There you were coming up the street

The very image of desire

You whispered sinister and sweet

A voice of innocense and fire

So I followed the deceiver

Too blind to discern

But deception was a teacher

And a brutal way to learn

I Should have turned

myself around and run

You were a charming one

Verse 3

I saw you shamed upon a cross

Wounded and naked on that tree

You counted everything a loss

Gave every bit of it to me

So when all the other suitors come

So cleverly disguised

They'll find me clinging to Your arm

And gazing in the eyes

That hold a passion

That could never be undone

You are the charming one