| The Sisters of Mercy – Flood I Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I'm always particularly captivated by the 'on a backcloth' verses... love the rhyme stuff, and of course we have Eldritch's usual wordplay... 'lashes' originally presented as 'eyelashes' ('lashes and eyes,' 'scent and mascara') but with the reference to 'sackcloth and ashes' as a form of grief or pentinence, it hints slightly at 'lashes' as whipping. And maybe the suggestion that all the regret--lashes, tears, sackcloth and ashes, secondhand passion--could be washed away by the waters of the flood. | |
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