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Take Me To Church, Hozier

My lover's got humor
She's the giggle at a funeral
Knows everybody's disapproval
I should've worshipped her sooner
If the Heavens ever did speak
She is the last true mouthpiece
Every Sunday's getting more bleak
A fresh poison each week

"We were born sick", you heard them say it
My church offers no absolutes
She tells me 'worship in the bedroom'
The only heaven I'll be sent to
Is when I'm alone with you

I was born sick, but I love it
Command me to be well
Amen, Amen, Amen

Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life

If I'm a pagan of the good times
My lover's the sunlight
To keep the Goddess on my side
She demands a sacrifice
To drain the whole sea
Get something shiny
Something meaty for the main course
That's a fine looking high horse
What you got in the stable?
We've a lot of starving faithful

That looks tasty
That looks plenty
This is hungry work

Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life

No masters or kings when the ritual begins
There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin
In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene
Only then I am human
Only then I am clean
Amen, Amen, Amen

Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life
Posted 5 years ago
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That's Okay, The Hush Sound

You were the child
Who was made out of glass
Who carried a black heart
Passed down from your dad
If somebody loved you,
They'd tell you by now
We all turn away when you're down

You want to go back
To where you felt safe
To hear your brother's laughter
See your mother's fac (...more)
I Will Follow You Into The Dark, Death Cab For Cutie

Love of mine, someday you will die
But I'll be close behind and I'll follow you into the dark
No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight, waiting for the hint of a spark

If heaven and hell decide that they (...more)
Happy Phantom, Tori Amos

And if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go chasing the nuns out in the yard
And I'll run naked through the streets without my mask on
And I will never need umbrellas in the rain
I'll wake up in Strawberry Fields every day
And the atrocities of school I can (...more)
Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen

Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing "Hallelujah"

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Halleluja (...more)
Black Acres, Elysian Fields

Whirlwind
Take me there
Where I will be
His lady fair
Sheets of night
Hiding us
Gusts of wind
Riding us

I'm blown away
Into his hands
I'm weak and high
Can barely stand
In the web
Of dizzy leaves
Virgins all
Elude the trees

Touch me now
Touch me
The black acres are claiming me
They (...more)
The Rain Within Her Hands, Bella Morte

Here shadows move of their own will
Through the twilight
I call the nameless place my home
And castles fall into the past for you

Tonight find the starlit rain within her hands
As sand suffocates beneath the seas again
Nights such as this may find us here bu (...more)
Hopeless Wanderer, Mumford & Sons

You heard my voice
I came out of the woods by choice
Shelter also gave their shade
But in the dark I have no name

So leave that click in my head
And I will remember the words that you said
Left a clouded mind and a heavy heart
But I am sure we could see a new star (...more)
Tribulation Hymn, Parker Millsap

It was just like the lightning
That flashes east to west
Just like an oncoming storm
It was just like a coffin
The hollow in my chest
Just like the bible
Just like I'd been warned

I was tending the garden
Pulling up the weeds
Trying to bear righteous fruit
But a man's (...more)
The Cave, Mumford & Sons

It's empty in the valley of your heart
The sun, it rises slowly as you walk
Away from all the fears
And all the faults you've left behind

The harvest left no food for you to eat
You cannibal, you meat-eater, you see
But I have seen the same
I know the shame in your defeat

B (...more)
Anywhere I Lay My Head, Tom Waits

My head is spinning round
My heart is in my shoes, yeah
I went and set the Thames on fire, oh
Now I must come back down

She's laughing in her sleeve, boys
I can feel it in my bones
Oh, but anywhere, anywhere I'm gonna lay my head
Oh, I'm gonna call my home

Well, I (...more)
Mad Tom of Bedlam, Jolie Holland

To see Mad Tom of Bedlam
Ten thousand miles I've travelled
Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes
For to save her shoes from gravel

It's well that we sing bonney boys
Bonney mad boys
Bedlam boys are bonney
For they all go bare, and they live in the air
And they want no dri (...more)
Wine Red, The Hush Sound

Who shot that arrow in your throat
Who missed the crimson apple
It hung heavy on the tree above your head

This chaos, this calamity
This garden once was perfect
Give your immortality to me
I'll set you up against the stars

Gloria,
We lied, we can't go on
This is the time and (...more)
Hummingbirds, Venus Hum

Some of my favourite colours in the world
Beat against my eyelids with the blues of green hummingbirds
Some of my favourite colours in the world
Beat against my eyelids with the reds of pink hummingbirds

Blue Moon
So white
So scared
To come out tonight

It's too dark
For him
He (...more)
Jardin d'hiver, Keren Ann

Je voudrais du soleil vert
Des dentelles et des théières
Des photos de bord de mer
Dans mon jardin d'hiver

Je voudrais de la lumière
Comme en Nouvelle Angleterre
Je veux changer d'atmosphère
Dans mon jardin d'hiver

Ta robe à fleur
Sous la pluie de novembre
Mes mains qui cour (...more)
Our Lies, Rasputina

Actually, I was never conceived
And I don't expect to be believed
But I've found my mouth stitched shut with glossy pink thread
And when I think of the lie filled love-life that I've led

I row boats all day with Karl, Vlad, and E. Leon
My tongue made of ivory, my teeth are al (...more)
Winter Song, Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson

This is my winter song to you
The storm is coming soon
It rolls in from the sea
My voice a beacon in the night
My words will be your light
To carry you to me

Is love alive?
Is love alive?
Is love alive?

They say that things just cannot grow
Beneath the (...more)
Ash Wednesday, Shivaree

Goodnight goodnight
Leave all your toys
Candles and cats
A few stupid boys
And a rock for good luck

Two different eyes
Leave your red birds to sing us lullabies
And some books and a baby
A ceiling of gold
The New York yankees
And a bottle of snow
You Are The Moon, The Hush Sound

Shadows all around you as you surface from the dark
Emerging from the gentle grip of night's unfolding arms
Darkness, darkness everywhere, do you feel all alone?
The subtle grace of gravity, the heavy weight of stone

You don't see what you possess, a beauty calm (...more)
Who By Fire, Leonard Cohen

And who by fire, who by water
Who in the sunshine, who in the night time
Who by high ordeal, who by common trial
Who in your merry merry month of May
Who by very slow decay
And who shall I say is calling?

And who in her lonely slip, who by barbiturate
Who in these realms (...more)