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Cities of the Plain Lyrics
PHARAOH SONG:
is there a balm in Gilead
to heal the sin-sick soul
and make the wounded whole?
Thirty sons’ thirty towns’
mournful sounds
formed beneath the sword and crown---
caught up in the green screen clouds
FIREY RAIN:
brimstone came pouring down
on the cities of the plain came down?
on children of the same came down?
But Mary, don’t cry
please don’t you cry
Mary, please don’t you cry
BRIDE [adorned in garments of salvation, torn]:
A promise to an air sign
born on the cusp of Capricorn?
DAUGHTERS (of Jerusalem):
Arouse, ye love!
SONS (overusing sounds like “love”
w/ its permission or an emphatic absence thereof):
Harvest past, summer’s end,
if we still are not saved,
was I not sufficiently ashamed?
neither did I blush save to speak your name?
SERAPHIM & CHERUBIM:
[serving Arab wine from Hebrew skins
in whose anger you’ll find no sin]:
Now’s as dreadful a time as any to begin
But Mary, don’t cry,
please don’t you cry
Mary, please don’t you cry.
is there a balm in Gilead
to heal the sin-sick soul
and make the wounded whole?
Thirty sons’ thirty towns’
mournful sounds
formed beneath the sword and crown---
caught up in the green screen clouds
FIREY RAIN:
brimstone came pouring down
on the cities of the plain came down?
on children of the same came down?
But Mary, don’t cry
please don’t you cry
Mary, please don’t you cry
A promise to an air sign
born on the cusp of Capricorn?
DAUGHTERS (of Jerusalem):
Arouse, ye love!
SONS (overusing sounds like “love”
w/ its permission or an emphatic absence thereof):
Harvest past, summer’s end,
if we still are not saved,
was I not sufficiently ashamed?
neither did I blush save to speak your name?
SERAPHIM & CHERUBIM:
[serving Arab wine from Hebrew skins
in whose anger you’ll find no sin]:
Now’s as dreadful a time as any to begin
please don’t you cry
Mary, please don’t you cry.
Song Info
Submitted by
peter_floyd On Sep 08, 2018
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