The Mountain Goats - Love Cuts The Strings lyrics

The first thing that happened was the river overflowed The water running through the streets and was sweet and cold I knelt by the water like a doe by a stream Punch-drunk, snowblind, as though the whole thing were a bad dream And then love pulled out the heavy artillery Kypris took the horses by the bit for the morning ride I count my blessings, but you can only be expected to count so high When love cuts the strings I smeared myself with pennyroyal to keep the hounds at bay You poked your head out of an alley half a block away And i recognized you, though i'm not sure how And the air turned red around you As a dull chill came down over me And then love summoned up the infantry And the green-eyed goddess got ready for all out war And i'd count my blessings, But i don't even know what the word blessing means When love cuts the strings Yeah!