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Dive
03:19
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Lillian Sloane she walks alone
Clothed in her best Sunday best
Adorned does she go
in her jewels of no worth
To surrender a spirit aggrieved and oppressed
the ravens they cry the ravens they croon
Singing canticles high in the trees
Swear to me now
You’ll devour my heart
As you level those blazing eyes at me
She sings down and down and down I go
Down to deliverance for me
Down and down and down I go
To the eye of the raging sea
How he plundered and thieved and tore out her heart
He revealed to her all of his splendor
now on the Gallows Bridge she stands
Overcome by the will that compelled her
Lillian Sloane you’ll dive alone
In the eye of the raging sea
The ravens will cry and devour your heart
And malign the blood of your breed
She sings down and down and down I go
Down to deliverance for me
Down and down and down I go
To the eye of the raging sea
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Dark Day Darling
03:49
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Dark Day, Darling
saw her weaving jewels in her hair I loved her the moment
she glowered at me Followed her down
Where the ravens abound I said to her Lillian tell me
Is this your dark day darling
Is this your end oh beautiful girl
Is there no reason or rhyme
In your tangled mind Or your soul
Saw her drawing blood from the ground
she buried her misery Down and down
Down did she tumble My beautiful girl
I cried to her Lillian tell me
Is this your dark day darling
Is this your end oh beautiful girl
Is there no reason or rhyme
In your tangled mind Or your soul
Oh I loved her
Like a truly sorrowing lover
And I followed her
Down and down to the river
Oh I cried to her
You’ve got no reason or rhyme at all
Oh she cried to me
All the better to
hasten the fall
Is this your dark day darling
Is this your end oh beautiful girl
Is there no reason or rhyme
In your tangled mind Or your soul
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Jericho River
03:52
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I heard a story you might know
Steeped in a libertine kind of glow
Something about a preacher man
Carving a serpentine command
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
Something about the preacher man
Sweeping his sanctimonious hand
Over the grief stricken eyes of the fold
Over the grasping ill-fated souls
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
Cunning and sly was he, they say
Charmed all the virgins under his sway
How he loved the way the men
Condescended to his command
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
All of those deadly, deadly sins
Spilling without and brimming within
And how we paled at the sound of his name
For all his misery and scandal and shame
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
Oh what iniquity coursed through his veins
Ruined the sacred and the profane
Nothing endures in the Gallows now
Nothing will thrive in the bitter ground
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
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Christian D Toronto
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