SubRosa - Strega lyrics
Tracks 01. Sugar Creek
02. Crucible 03. Christine 04. Strega 05. Isaac 06. Black Joan 07. The Hours I Keep 08. Go Down Moses 09. How To Neglect Your Heart 10. Self-Rule 01. Sugar Creek
I know a path in the woods
Don't be afraid; they're only shadows It's safer here when there's two I thought I heard her calling I thought I saw her falling (I swear I saw her falling) You look so levely in the shadows I've forgotten why I ever angered I see your eyes in the shallows Her reflection lies in dirty water And now her body's like an angel Now her body's like an angel And now I know I'll never anger 02. Crucible
We´ll scour the ghettos
For the trash of the earth Put em on the frontline They won't be missed Step into my crucible Warm yourself in my crucible Burn and die in my crucible We'll bribe their grieving families With the fat of the land Spread distorted visions Till they eat from our hand The victims of the system Are the first to be served To propagate that system They're meat in our mill Cast into the futile battle In the caste system Of feudal lords Crying from the Bottom of the pile In the voice of a number We're paragons of virtue And you are the same When you die in our turnstile We'll protect your name 03. Christine
Whispers on the back porch
The don't want you anymore He beat you till were raw Then he took something more Christine At school the girls call you a whore Your lunch money on the floor But they look you up and down You found that you were weak At forgiving enemies So much darkness in that room No one gets you, no one could Never giving in Never again 04. Strega
Watcher in the North
Regulus estate Watcher in the South Fomalhaut inverno Watcher in the East Aldebaran Watcher in the West Antares autunno O Strega Beneath the walnut tree O Strega Between the moon and the sea Royal stars Watchers Four points in the star Take me in your arms Diana Dainus Stag and Wolf Kiss me, bless me Always myself 05. Isaac
He´s a long way from home
And the shots cut him him down I saw it in a dream I had last night I saw the shots cut him down And smoke all around And his broken body lying in the sand Though I know that my son died for a new day And for all the millions that would pass this way If God himself should knock on my door I'd turn him away, say I ain't got no more to give Well, the prince keeps us down Steals our money for his crown And the lies he tells us never go away In the darkest night We had to stand up and fight It was that or die forever on our knees The day he left for war, Silhouetted against the door, I had to look away and hide my face for shame. 06. Black Joan
Out on the quay
Trash for the day I've got a feeling I can't explain Is it my future Buried in my past? All that I know is It might just last Black Joan This begging life keeps On dragging me down I'm sick of small change I'm sick of this town Gotta find a new way To make things right Gotta write my own story; It begin's tonight. Black Joan I hear my train a-comin Black wheels like thunder rollin Won't you help me pack my backs? I'm leavin and I'm not comin back. Dissatisfaction Plagued me all long But I never felt my lack Till I heard your song. 07. The Hours I Keep
Oh mother
Oh father You gave me lief You gave me death Oh mother Oh father You loved me well You can´t help me now There is no escape Dark water all around On the broken bridge Revere is bound A dead-end maze Dark passageways Synapse collapse Reality break It's morning Twelve hours of sleep You won't believe the hours I keep A veil is placed before my eyes I can't see myself I can't see their lies I'm buried in this bag of skin With sham circuitry Where do I begin? Oh mother Oh father You gave me life You gave me death 08. Go Down Moses
When Israel was in Egypt's land
Let me people go Oppressed so hard the could not stand Let my people go Go down, Moses, way down in Egypt's land Tell old Pharaoh, let my people go So Moses went to Egypt's land Let my people go To make old Pharaoh understand Let my people go Thus spake the Lord, bold Moses said, Let my people go If not, I'll strike your firstborn dead Let my people go 09. How To Neglect Your Heart
The laugh at me
I´m all alone The question me In jagged tones The try to tell me what's true And what's not true As if they knew As if they knew They tell me how to feel They tell me what I'm worth They tell me how I failed All in their own words The tell me how to love And how to get along Passion's all right As long as it's not too strong Here's how you play the game Here's how you play your part Here's how you go along Here's how to neglect your heart Fixed life Like the stars Never moving Never far 10. Self-Rule
Self-Rule
Fixed bayonets in the crisp autumn air And I have to wonder why I don't even care Scarlet epaulets and well-oiled hair I invade the nations of the poor But I can't fight my own battles, can't find a cure I'll make them feel my rod till they can't take anymore A cry of war is heard throughout the land But all I have self-blame on hand I'll crush their kingdom with a fistful of sand I'll subject you to horror I'll subject you cause I can't rule myself I rule a nation I rule a nation but can't rule myself Fixed bayonets in the crisp autumn air And I have to wonder why I don't even care I have to wonder why I don't even care |