The Story Of The Mother chords by Stephin Merritt
Verse 1
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Although my child has died,
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the mother said,
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That doesn't make him permanently dead.
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I must petition death for his return.
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She made her way into the lands below
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There was a rosebush there,
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where things don't grow
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It said, you warned your child,
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give me your blood
And on a thorn, her flesh was torn
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That's how rose bushes grow down there
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So then she met this great big centipede
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Who wanted something
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from her it decreed
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You want to hold your child
Give me your arms
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In lands beneath
They grow strange teeth
to tear your flesh more painfully
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But as she staggered
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and stumbled for her baby's sake
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And found herself beside a talking lake
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You want to see your child,
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give me your eyes
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Which turned to pearls and sank in swirls
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Into liquid all the beyond
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In the form of a spider
Death hung there beside her
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And kissed her and made her his wife
The Story Of The Mother
Stephin Merritt
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