Hot Knives

Album: Cassadega (2007)
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  • The wife forgave the mistress
    For she only entertained
    The pain was gone the instant
    She cleared her throat to speak her name
    Said, Both of us must suffer
    From this same unending ache?

    The world was not of interest
    Though her days were never dull
    Her bed beneath a crucifix
    On guests performing miracles
    With the Son of God just hanging like a common criminal
    "When I do wrong, I am with God," she thought
    "When I feel lost, I am not at all"

    So give me black light
    (Give, give me)
    So give me hot knives
    (Deep clean sleep)
    On a dance floor no one tells time
    (There is no time)

    Oh, I've made love, yeah, I've been fucked, so what?
    I'm a cartoon, you're a full moon, let's stay up

    She went to see a mystic
    Who made medicine from rain
    And gave up her existence
    To feel everything, dream other's dreams
    Bid farewell to her family
    With one ecstatic wave
    (Please take care, I love you all)
    Out the window as the car rolled away
    She just vanished into a thick mist of change

    So let us rejoice
    (Let's rejoice!)
    In all this pink noise
    (Our pink noise!)
    An oscillation that we can pinpoint
    (We're right here!) Writer/s: CONOR OBERST
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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