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Lyrics for As I Washed The Blood Off by Fatima Mansions:
| | | Artist: | Fatima Mansions |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | As I Washed The Blood Off | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 122 | | | | Lyrics: | As i washed the blood off she yelled at me
Though no blows had been struck
And she still
looked so serene
Then she started to cry
Then she burst out laughing
Then three sharp
words in that warrior's tongue
I'd learned them well
Through this night in
hell
"i'm not ashamed of my body
I never said you hurt me
With your faithless wit
and your aimless guile
And your [fall from] hands and your shame faced smile
Everything you
touch is gonna turn to dust!"
Not a stone will stand upon a stone
Not a stone will
stand upon a stone
As i washed the blood off she laughed at me
And asked whose
reincarnation i might be
I said, "i'm not your father
Or the-two legged beast who scarred
you
Though i have done great wrongs of my own."
They were long ago
So how could you
know?
I never asked for your pity
That's just as well if you ask me
Then the lights
went out
And a rumble built to become a roar
But she screamed, "it's you!
Every day you
wake is gonna end in hate!"
Not a stone will stand upon a stone
Not a
stone will stand upon a stone
I didn't know what to do
How could i tell her the
truth?
I climbed up out of her hall
And went to sleep on the roof
When i woke up to the
sun
Her brother brought me some food
And we played cards until 'noon
Five stories up
from [...?]
The pools of blood and the blasted rocks
And the children screaming who
will never stop
And the blast of heat
And the stench of gas
And the lost dogs fighting
over human scraps
And she called to us from the street beneath
"my footloose ways will be
the death of me!"
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