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 of love, who by something blunt,and who by avalanche, who by powder,who for his greed, who for his hunger,and who shall I say is calling?And who by brave assent, who by accident,who in solitude, who in this mirror,who by his lady’s command, who by his own hand,who in mortal chains, who in power,and who shall I say is calling?
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I asked my father, / I said, “Father change my name.” / The one I’m using now it’s covered up / with fear and filth and cowardice and shame.
Give me back my broken night / My mirrored room, my secret life / It’s lonely here / There’s no one left to torture
Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women / There’s a shoulder where Death comes to cry / There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows / There’s a tree where the doves go to die
Pai, eu quero te amar / Tocar o teu coração / E me derramar aos teus pés / Mais perto quero estar, Senhor
I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast / Can’t seem to loosen my grip on the past / And I miss you so much, there’s no one in sight / And we’re still making love in my secret life
When they poured across the border / I was cautioned to surrender / This I could not do / I took my gun and vanished
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin / Dance me through the panic ‘til I’m gathered safely in / Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove / Dance me to the end of love
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 birds they sang / At the break of day / Start again / I heard them say