Lost Destroyer Lyrics (via Neural Network) IV
For that murder of a noble man
Father said I couldn’t see with my mother’s eyes
Yes, he had reason, he didn’t have me
Is my need right to make my pain look like pleasure?
It’s tough…
That ring on your finger, that was yours to lose
Your life flashed in the flame
I knew a virgin lay beneath the scorching moon
Into the thunder
When your sun’s setting on the prairie
That’s the story you now want to tell…
I like my odds against death
Maybe that’s just how Americans work
But nobody was in his place
So watch out for that wolf in sheep’s clothing
Just because there’s a season for some things doesn’t mean
It never rains…
Your blue eyes grow old and the outer bones remain
How was the wine?
Who was the moon?
You could feel it all
And there was no learning in my wake
The dream is over and I’m asleep
The dream is over…
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That a horse would pay you
I was sure you’d come back
In the black, once again
Settle into your final days, once again
I was sure that your courage would reemerge
And sank as they meet again…
Doing our best, we’re doing our best
Don’t worry about your beauty or
Sweating like a snake, going berserk
It’s not easy to be a queen in the night
Except on a gloomy bank
In a house that looks like a prison
And I know what you are…
Not a bad line said by your grandmother,
“Flowers in the sky.”
You’re the fruit of a common seed
An impregnated tree without a cause
Blooming flowers in their endless, bleeding, breathless lines
The sun sets each day before you
Grows with every passing morning
There’s a thousand of them…
The river runs low
Transparent shapes push and pull
The piano in the bandshell, old and bloody
She is a natural princess,
Teeth rasping on steel, gilded copper girders
Fair maidens, sitting in the shade of the city…
They tried to use me to make them rich
The dark is our base, the light is our dream
The dark is what we do, the light is what we are
The light is what we do, the dark is what we are
You love us both, it’s not a phase…
