Dry The River - Shield Your Eyes (Acoustic) lyrics

I'm burning like an effigy in here The summer's come to haunt me And I know I'm not the sacrificial deer But I wish you could've warned me Of the Phrygian Lion With his excellent eyesight At the gate of our love I understood the chemistry of peace You covered me in warpaint When Moses was a whisper in the reeds I carved you in the floodplain By the Phrygian Lion With his excellent eyesight And the gate of our love Under sweet autumnal skins Is our myth dispelled In your strange and simple way And the Phrygian Lion With his excellent eyesight Is what makes it our love