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Built This Church
03:42
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A queer smell hangs around the house tonight
Embers lie cold in the grate
I call your name, my own voice replies
A silence like that cannot lie
Once we were one and we’ll be one again
In this life because there is no next
You made me yours and now I’ll make you mine
I was water you made me wine
So I built this church from your bones
And I worship there every day
And this cloak I’m in
I sewed from your skin
And your flesh I made my own
Love on love you shovelled love on love
Love on love and love again
You fanned the flames that burn me up
You made me come and come again
I loved you like a Christian loves his god
Except that you were real
There’s nothing in this world that you can’t see
Or touch or taste or feel
So I built this church from your bones
And I worship there every day
And this cloak I’m in
I sewed from your skin
And your flesh I made my own
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2. |
I Saw You
02:02
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I saw you walking by the river
I saw you walking by the stream
I saw you walking through a field of flowers
And I saw you walking in my dreams
I saw you sleeping in the station
I saw you sleeping in the zoo
I saw you sleeping in a black bin liner
And I wanted to climb in there with you
I saw you drowning in the ocean
I saw you drowning in a bucket of beer
I saw you drowning in your laughter
I saw you drowning in my tears
I saw you kissing other women
I saw you kissing other guys
I saw you kissing my baby sister
And I saw you with your head between her thighs
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3. |
Flowers
03:42
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I watched
You walk
Through the rain
Sun came
You said
There could
Never be
Something
Between you and me
We’ll see
There is nothing between us
But six feet of earth
Flowers surround you
And I, I know my worth
Flowers surround you
And I, I know my worth
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4. |
Diamonds in the Rough
02:49
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While walking out one evening
Not knowing where to go
Just to pass the time away
Before we held our show
I heard the Bethel mission band
Singing with all their might
They gave their hearts to Jesus
I gave mine to the night
The day will soon be over
And digging will be done
No more gems to gather
So let us all press on
No God will come to claim you
The truth is sometimes tough
We’ll be forever diamonds
Shining in the rough
One day my precious comrade
You too were lost in sin
While others sought your rescue
I just jumped right in
We waded and we wallowed
Thru the darkest nights
But we would never swallow
The story of the light
We live our lives in darkness
Not knowing where to go
But we will never climb those steps
To knock on that church door
No God will come to claim you
The truth is sometimes tough
We’ll be forever diamonds
Shining in the rough
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THE DIRT Glasgow
THE DIRT are a gothic country three-piece based in Glasgow, Scotland.
“Scotland's
finest purveyors of gothic country gloom.”
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“Bury Me Tomorrow is a gloomy triumph of underground folk and country music that is a must listen.”
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