Hounds of Heaven Lyrics

It came up from the wetlands, under Waverly HillIt came, quiet and crazy, then it stood perfectly stillIt stunk of the tunnel, it stunk of dying too youngIt had ash on its eyelids ...Read Full Lyrics

He’d tell his mother how tocatch butterflies in plastic tubesTo crush, crush, crush them into pasteBut now his neck-tie has himHe scours the newspaper for cluesabout how his tail...Read Full Lyrics

I buried a friend todayPoor thing, she went in a common sort of waySuch a pretty face, balanced on a bottle-neckIt makes you wonder why they’d bothersewing it back onDo you think...Read Full Lyrics

Mr. Finch collects physicians, he calls them all his ownBut each of them just looks at him and tells him to go homeThen panic closes inI hope that whiney shit gets hisHe might be s...Read Full Lyrics

Baby girl, you know I love youYou know I’ll never let go of youand if we ever lose each otherI’ll meet you at our table in the darkBaby girl, you know I love youYou know I’ll...Read Full Lyrics

Give us your daughtersBring us your sonsWe’ve got some graves to filland a slaughterhouse to runYou will curse our namesover and over and over and over againFollow your master’...Read Full Lyrics

It’s so dark, undergroundWe’re drunk on MarxA dozen rounds plus oneCome out with your hands up, or you dieThrow your guns down and reach for the skyThe chopping blockThe cold g...Read Full Lyrics

She was the picture of beauty and graceHe bottled her magic and fixed her in placeHis music was written all over her faceHe mined her perfection and chipped it away,reducing his lo...Read Full Lyrics

I am rushing at a bulletand the bullet’s standing stillMy heart’s racing toward a precipicethat contracts as winter killsI am offering my povertyI am offering my nameI am offer...Read Full Lyrics

When the knell soundswe’ll be called to accountand to justifyall the time that we’ve wasted ironing the emperor’s new clothesThe cuckoo’s are repeating,“I know it all, I ...Read Full Lyrics