The Weeping Song Lyrics

Go son, go down to the waterAnd see the women weeping thereThen go up into the mountainsThe men, they are all weeping too Father, why are all the women weeping?They are all weeping...Read Full Lyrics

Stranger than kindnessBottled light from hotelsSpilling everythingWet hand from the volcanoSobers your skinStranger than Kindness You caress yourselfAnd grind my soft cold bones be...Read Full Lyrics

Go son, go down to the waterAnd see the women weeping thereThen go up into the mountainsThe men, they are all weeping too Father, why are all the women weeping?They are all weeping...Read Full Lyrics

I stood in the waterIn the middle month of winterMy camel skin was tortureI was in a state of natureThe wind, sir, it was wickedI was so aloneJust as I predictedMy followers were g...Read Full Lyrics

You fell from the skyCrash landed in a fieldNear the river AdurFlowers spring from the groundLambs burst from the wombs of their mothersIn a hole beneath the bridgeShe convalesce, ...Read Full Lyrics

Ah wanna tell ya 'bout a girlYou know, she lives in room twenty-nineWhy, why? That's the one right up top a mineI start to cry, I start to cryOh, I hear her walkingWalking barefoot...Read Full Lyrics

There's a devil waiting outside your door(How much longer?)There's a devil waiting outside your doorAnd he's bucking and braying and pawing at the floorAnd he's howling with pain a...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

Go son, go down to the waterAnd see the women weeping thereThen go up into the mountainsThe men, they are all weeping too Father, why are all the women weeping?They are all weeping...Read Full Lyrics

As so with that, I thought I'd take a final walkThe tide of public opinion had started to abateThe neighbors, bless them, had turned out to be all talkI could see their frightened ...Read Full Lyrics