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The Letters [Live] Lyrics
With quill and silver knife
She carved a poison pen
Wrote to her lover's wife
"Your husband's seed has fed my flesh"
As if a leper's face
That tainted letter graced
The wife with choke-stone throat
Ran to the day with tear-blind eyes
Impaled on nails of ice
And raked with emerald fire
The wife with soul of snow
With steady hands begins to write
"I'm still, I need no life
To serve on boys and men
What's mine was yours is dead
I take my leave of mortal flesh"
She carved a poison pen
Wrote to her lover's wife
"Your husband's seed has fed my flesh"
That tainted letter graced
The wife with choke-stone throat
Ran to the day with tear-blind eyes
And raked with emerald fire
The wife with soul of snow
With steady hands begins to write
To serve on boys and men
What's mine was yours is dead
I take my leave of mortal flesh"
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Submitted by
songmeanings On Feb 06, 2012
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