Natalie Merchant - Thick As Thieves Lyrics
Remember how it all beganThe apple and the fall of manThe price we paidSo the people sayDown the path of shame and let us dareTo bite the hand that fed usFairy tale, the moral endWheel of fortune, never turns againNever turns againThe worst of it has come and goneIn the chaos of millenniumAnd the falling outOf the doomsday crowdTheir last retreat is moving slowThey burn their bridges as they goThe heretic is beautifiedTeach the harlots child to smileRocked again by indecisionShould we make that small incisionTestify, to the bleeding heart insideWe cut, we scratchedWe ran, and we slashedAnd when he opened up at lastFound a cul de sacDeepened blackOf smoke and ashDeepened blackSmoke and ashThe wicked king of parodyIs kissing all his enemiesOn the seventh dayOn the seventh weekThe tyrants voice has softened nowBut just for one forgiving hourBefore the rise of hisIron fist againFist againIve come tonightIve come to knowThe way we are the way well goAnd to measure thisThe width of the wide abyssIve come to you in restless sleepWere all your dreams turned bitter sweetWith voodoo doll philosophiesDay gloy holy trinitiesThe wicked raft that leaves the shoreOf ferries drunken souls a boardPilgrims march to compostelaOf visions of their saint in yellowFollow deep in tranceLost in a catatonic danceKnow no futureDamn the pastBlind war, ecstaticTo save their lives
