"Year Of Love" lyrics

Is this some strangers thought I have?
Or an implant, in my brain?
I don't recognize it, but I'm glad
Cause it's what's waking me up from a dream
Before I found out where to look
Before I found out what I was

I thought that any other way
Was desolation for my soul
I prayed for so much shelter from the coming storm
They said, "your transgressions will make The Lord send you away"

A thread came loose from a seam
And love came near and intervened
And then I felt that old familiar feeling
You remember, the one when the universe walked through you

You let it take the time it took
What a year of love and pain it's been
And we're still writing out the book
About how we get born again