Natalie Merchant Lyrics

Album: Ophelia

Thick As Thieves Lyrics

Remember how it all began

 The apple and the fall of man

 The price we paid

 So the people say

 Down a path of shame it lead us

 Dared to bite the hand that fed us

 The fairy tale

 The moral end

 The wheel of fortune

 Never turns again 

 

 The worst of it has come and gone

 In the chaos of millennium

 In the falling out of the doomsday crowd

 Their last retreat is moving slow

 They burn their bridges as they go

 The heretic is beatified

 He'll teach the harlot's child to smile 

 

 Wracked again by indecision

 Should we make that small incision

 Testify to the bleeding heart inside? 

 We cut, we scratched

 We rent, we slashed

 And when he opened up at last

 Found a cul-de-sac

 Deep and black

 Of smoke and ash 

 

 The wicked king of parody

 Is kissing all his enemies

 On the seventh day

 Of the seventh week

 The tyrant's voice is softer now

 But just for one forgiving hour

 Before the rise of his

 Iron fist again 

 

 I've come tonight

 I've come to know

 The way we are

 The way we'll go

 Come to measure this

 The width of the wide abyss 

 

 I come to you in restless sleep

 Where all your dreams turn bitter-sweet

 With voodoo doll philosophies

 And day-glo holy trinities 

 

 The crooked raft that leaves the shore

 Ferries drunken souls aboard

 Pilgrims march to Compestela

 Visions of their saint in yellow 

 

 All follow deep in trance

 Lost in a catatonic dance

 Know no future

 Damn the past

 Blind, warm, ecstatic

 Safe at last...