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The Lion And The Virgin

from Featherbones by Matt Langley

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lyrics

Lying like a needle in the field
Roots underground
Waiting for the magpies in the trees
To come and fetch my bones out

O now your tenderness is such a burden to receive
O now your bitterness has got me running up my sleeve

I remember mornings when we brewed
Cold cups of tears and coffee
I got no milk, no jam to spread
On bread that’s burning

O now your emptiness, friends fill it up with sympathy
Lost in your wilderness, won’t see no forest for the trees

So come Death to plough the field
To fell the wheat and set it burning
Come the lover to the thief
And lay down like the Lion and the Virgin

Sweet maiden mother bared her breast
You tasted pain
One silken honeysuckle kiss
Now it’s gone forever

O now your emptiness, friends fill it up with sympathy
Lost in your wilderness, won’t see no forest for the trees

So come Death to plough the field
To fell the wheat and set it burning
Come the lover to the thief
And lay down like the Lion and the Virgin

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from Featherbones, released January 1, 2010

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Matt Langley Dunedin, New Zealand

Award winning singer/songsmith from New Zealand.
Lives in Japan.

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