New York Slave chords by The Blood Brothers

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Verse 1
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Her smiles flashed SOS in
that dress of sea anemone skin.
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He pinned his heart to his tuxedo
it throbbed
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And hissed like a rabid jewel.
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From the back of the chapel cracked
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And crystal our gaze
locked in temptation.
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A priest with a glass eye sang song
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s of christian desperation.
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The flower girls were all sown up,
They're hanging from the rafters.
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Showering your matrimony like a
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guillotine's laughter.
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"dearly beloved we are gathered
here to witness,
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The sacred union of
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vibrancy and sickness...
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Do you take this man with
the diamond skin tie?
And when you are fucking him will
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you scream dollar signs?
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Let me introduce you to a
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new phrase...
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New york noose for a new
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york slave."
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Stained glass eyes wink through mother
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maty's navelscope...
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Who's pupils are watch
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ing?
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The priest's tongue slips
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out like a jackal.
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Every eye in the audience
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spinning like a drill.
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The groom plucks a key from
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the rapture tree
And opens her ribcage like a
squealing armoire.
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Her lungs and liver screaming
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mercy mercy mercy,
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While they re arrange the
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wires in her heart.
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I   now pronounce
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you smiling like a grave,
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I   now pronounce you a
new york slave.
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Now every dripping chest wound
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is  getting little guilt feelings,
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What about your new life
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do  you crave?
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He's your ticket to fame but
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your his new york slave.