Thick As Thieves         
             

Remember how it all began 
The apple and the fall of man 
The price we paid 
So the people say 

Down the path of shame and let us dare 
To bite the hand that fed us 
Fairy tale, the moral end 
Wheel of fortune, never turns again 
Never turns again 

The worst of it has come and gone 
In the chaos of millennium 
And the falling out 
Of the doomsday crowd 
Their last retreat is moving slow 
They burn their bridges as they go 
The heretic is beautified 
Teach the harlot's child to smile 

Rocked again by indecision 
Should we make that small incision 
Testify, to the bleeding heart inside 
We cut, we scratched 
We ran, and we slashed 
And when he opened up at last 
Found a cul de sac 
Deepened black 
Of smoke and ash 
Deepened black 
Smoke and ash 

The wicked king of parody 
Is kissing all his enemies 
On the seventh day 
On the seventh week 
The tyrant's voice has softened now 
But just for one forgiving hour 
Before the rise of his 
Iron fist again 
Fist again 

I've come tonight 
I've come to know 
The way we are the way we'll go 
And to measure this 
The width of the wide abyss 

I've come to you in restless sleep 
Were all your dreams turned bitter sweet 
With voodoo doll philosophies 
Day gloy holy trinities 
The wicked raft that leaves the shore 
Of ferries drunken souls a board 
Pilgrims march to Compostela 
Of visions of their saint in yellow 

Follow deep in trance 
Lost in a catatonic dance 
Know no future 
Damn the past 
Blind war, ecstatic 
To save their lives

             
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