Porn is Bad Religion


    I loved you enough to get us into Fort Knox
    or the tombs of the pharoahs
    carrying the ark of the convenant
    in quiet ways that go unnoticed
    deep enough to carry all the gold
    secret enough that only you would know
    trusting you all the ways I could
    Loving you was holy
    Loving you was good


    I loved you enough to get us into Fort Knox
    not enough to get us out
    so we are here with those books
    with the pictures that you like
    no hotline to those women with their skin so white
    women who do not sweat, whose thighs are tight
    Oh how can I get back before it's too late
    to be what I wanted, to be what I hate


    I loved you enough to get us into Fort Knox
    here where counting gold is worship
    and craven images gild the prison
    I don't turn heads like she did
    I don't stand out in a crowd
    even here in the jail of gold
    Even here I hear their voices
    and feel the looks of scorn
    I'm vanilla womanhood, I am nothing like porn


    But I loved you enough to get us into Fort Knox
    with everyday passion and all of that stuff
    Loving you was holy; it just wasn't enough


    ~XineAnn