In the Ghetto Lyrics

It's difficultIt's very toughI said to the man who'd been sleeping roughTo sit within a fragrant breezeAll among the nodding treesThat hang heavy with the stuffHe threw his arms ar...Read Full Lyrics

Past the ivy-covered windows of the angelDown Athenaeum Lane to the cathedralThrough the churchyard I wanderedSat for a spell there and I ponderedMy back to the gates My back to th...Read Full Lyrics

I don't believe in an interventionist GodBut I know, darling, that you doBut if I did, I would kneel down and ask HimNot to intervene when it came to youOh, not to touch a hair on ...Read Full Lyrics

O my o my, what a wretched lifeI was born on the day that my poor mama diedI was cut from her belly with a Stanley knifeMy daddy did a jig with the drunk midwifeWho's that yonder a...Read Full Lyrics

They're gonna lay me low (lay me low)They're gonna sink me in the snowThey're gonna throw back their heads and crowWhen I goThey're gonna jump and shout (lay me low)They're gonna w...Read Full Lyrics

Everybody got a room [Repeat: x3]In God's Hotel.Everybody got a room.Well you'll never see a sign hanging on the doorSayin 'No vacancies anymore'.Everybody got wings [Repeat: x3]In...Read Full Lyrics

Get ready for love! Praise Him!Get ready for love! (Get ready, get ready)Praise Him!Get ready for love! (Get ready, get ready)Get ready!Well, most of all nothing muchEver really ha...Read Full Lyrics

And what costume shall the poor girl wearTo all tomorrow's partiesA hand-me-down dress from who knows whereTo all tomorrow's partiesAnd where will she go and what shall she doWhen ...Read Full Lyrics

Along crags and sunless cracks I go(Along crags and sunless cracks I go)Up rib of rock, down spine of stone(Down rib of rock, up spine of stone)I dare not slumber where the night w...Read Full Lyrics

Stay by me, stay by meYou are the one, my only true loveThe butcherbird makes its noiseAnd it asks you to agreeWith its brutal nesting habitsAnd its pointless savageryNow, the nigh...Read Full Lyrics