The Charity of Saint Elizabeth

These are what the lyrics are according to my ears. My ears kind of let me down on this one. If someone has the correct lyrics let me know. Jeff

Here are the full lyrics

Cold and fever wrap disease around your neck. Here's hemostats to stop the flow of blood. Summer freckles hide the roses on your cheeks. Does heaven keep a place for her inside? Breathe until it freezes, colors carry phantoms to theirs graves. What leaks in, will seep out, the run-off from the gutter tells the story of our child. The message in the water, "the kids are going home tonight" I know the voice of orderly all too well. "Call the parents on theirs cell phones." You see, they need to get get here right now, because there is an angel in the place of the boy next door. "I'm afraid I've got some bad news" Something's in this room tonight, and something's in this place and I'm right here waiting. Something's in this room tonight, death has found escape and I'm right here waiting and I'm right here. Look under the bed. Stop striking matches to disguise the smell, we all know, all day all night all we hear, is blue bouncing through the walls as Madre' Santiago takes a knee and she screams to the fluorescents. "All our lives for this one night." "Our sleep can't hide from you." "So take my dreams in place of me." "I reach my hand to you." Something's in this room tonight, and something's in this place and I'm right here waiting. Something's in this room tonight, death has found escape and I'm right here waiting and I'm right here. Look under the bed. Slip through the crack, a gathering of adults, white skirts, blue-green scrubs shaking their heads. Stop pointing your fingers and making your rounds, its not going to be me, its not going to be me.

I love this song its got that awesome miner sound to it I think thats one of the reasons that I like sullivan so much

my faovirte song on the album, it's simply amazing

I think its about some kid dying in a hospital (references to orderlies and beds). And the singer's saying "I see what's going on" and he's intrigued but insists he's not going to be the next person death steals. Sort of weird. I don't think he meant for people to fully understand it.

great song

i think its about a children's terminal illness ward... "Call the parents on theirs cell phones" You see, they need to get get here right now The song is written in first person, so i believe that the narrator belongs to this ward and finds the boy in the next bed is dead... his warning to "look under the bed" implies that the ward reeks of death and that death is hiding everywhere. and despite their efforts to "disguise the smell" all of the patients are very aware of its presence. at the end of the song the narrator affirms that he will not die like the rest of the children allthough we all know that he will.

i totally agree with andferneee! that is exactly what I was thinking and this is an amazing song, i think what i like the most about sullivan is the way they make you think so hard to understand and they always send shivers down my spine