Needle Of Death

Album: Bert Jansch (1965)
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  • When sadness fills your heart
    And sorrow hides the longing to be free
    When things go wrong each day
    You fix your mind to 'scape your misery

    Your troubled young life
    Had made you turn
    To a needle of death

    How strange, your happy words
    Have ceased to bring a smile from everyone
    How tears have filled the eyes
    Of friends that you once had walked among

    Your troubled young life
    Had made you turn
    To a needle of death

    One grain of pure white snow
    Dissolved in blood spread quickly to your brain
    In peace your mind withdraws
    Your death so near your soul can't feel no pain

    Your troubled young life
    Had made you turn
    To a needle of death

    Your mother stands a'cryin'
    While to the earth your body's slowly cast
    Your father stands in silence
    Caressing every young dream of the past

    Your troubled young life
    Had made you turn
    To a needle of death

    Through ages, man's desires
    To free his mind, to release his very soul
    Has proved to all who live
    That death itself is freedom for evermore

    And your troubled young life
    Will make you turn
    To a needle of death Writer/s: Bert Jansch
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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