Lyrics of Love expires

A - ages and ages ago
B - before the race we know
C - ceased to pray aloud
D - demons were cast out (with relative)
E - ease and every
F - effort was made to keep
G - jesus alive in the
H - eight churches and the
I - islands that lay
J - adjacent -- but the day
K - came when great numbers of
L - eloquent philosophers, false love
M - emissaries from the east,
N - engulfed all nations and the beast
O - opened wide the door for scoundrels, and no
P - pea shooter prayers from cathedrals and
Q - cubicles, no high-sounding
R - articles of faith will allow us to
S - escape what has followed us here from the
T - teepee to the freeway where
U - euphemisms abound and veer in endless
V - vehicular homicidal
W - double u-turns until all love
X - expires in a messy wave, an ever-
Y - widening wave of senseless
Z - (xenophobic) frenzy