Poem Lyrics
And I can't let you leave
My body feels so safe here
You're my angel at the end of the rainbow
Where everybody's falling in love
And says 'yes' to every conversation
To go as low as we can go
Oh, how to be the one that you love?
And enjoy it one last time before we say goodbye
You are my church (Church)
And it all begins when we touch (Touch)
About
Being the closer of LP’s album Churches, “Poem” is a spoken-word outro that sums up the record’s themes by making references to every track on it.
When asked about how this idea came out, LP told Atwood Magazine:
Poem was the last thing […] I wrote; I had the idea to do something like that, to use every title in a poem that kind of sums everything up emotionally. […] It felt so cathartic and so, I feel like it tied the record up in a bow, and it felt really good.
Q&A
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I have to say that the poem was the last thing […] I wrote: I had the idea to […] use every title [of the songs on the album] in a poem that kind of sums everything up, emotionally. When I had the idea, I didn’t do it, and it’s a perfect analogy to my songwriting, […] because I consider myself fairly prolific. […] I don’t stress about fallow periods, […] ’cause they don’t last that long, first of all. And also, I just think that they’re necessary. So, I had the idea, but then it didn’t come, and then, literally we were wrapping up the last two songs, […] and that it just fell out and I was like, “Oh man!” […] It felt so cathartic and so, I feel like it tied the record up in a bow, and it felt really good.
– LP, via Atwood Magazine
