That Beautiful Word-Kristian Hoffman

[ti:That Beautiful Word] [ar:Kristian Hoffman] [al:Earthquake Weather] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.13]That Beautiful Word - Kristian Hoffman [00:01.26]Written by：Kristian Hoffman [00:01.74] [00:22.32]When we opened the basement the battered [00:25.42]Cadaver looked brittle and small [00:28.69] [00:29.97]Not a world weary gumshoe [00:31.97]Could say what occurred [00:34.17] [00:37.19]Then it blinked and it coughed and it sputtered [00:40.22]It wasn't quite dead after all [00:43.52] [00:44.51]It was only the shell of that beautiful word [00:49.30] [00:51.91]There was talk of unsavory methods and [00:55.19]Wills that were broken and crushed [00:58.31] [00:59.21]But it seemed so alarmist and vague and absurd [01:03.81] [01:06.52]Till the grim light of dawn hit this [01:08.86]Vessel whose own very soul had been hushed [01:12.81] [01:13.69]Tell me what have we have done [01:15.65]To that beautiful word [01:18.08] [01:20.61]That beautiful word fell like the sky [01:25.37]What kind of lullaby [01:28.90] [01:29.72]Turns love into a lie lie lie lie lie lie lie [01:35.42]Say haven't you heard Letters this [01:39.26]High spell out the reason why [01:43.74] [01:44.78]Lie lie lie lie lie [01:51.53] [01:54.15]First we drugged it with bald self [01:56.31]Importance then rented it out like a whore [02:00.24] [02:01.55]Fire and brimstone was always the payment preferred [02:05.92] [02:08.89]When it lay down with power and [02:10.95]Religion it couldn't get up anymore [02:14.99] [02:16.15]That's the way that we crippled that beautiful word [02:20.76] [02:23.25]That beautiful word fell like the sky [02:27.95]What kind of lullaby [02:32.10]Turns love into a lie lie lie [02:35.92]Lie lie lie lie lie lie [02:38.00]Say haven't you heard letters this [02:41.76]High spell out the reason why [02:46.35] [02:47.30]Lie lie lie lie lie [02:52.42] [02:53.08]I can't even remember [02:56.73]How it came to be cursed [02:59.27] [03:00.33]But whatever the meaning [03:03.55] [03:04.05]Now it means the reverse [03:06.44] [03:07.57]We used alchemy backwards [03:10.66] [03:11.17]To make lead out of gold [03:13.70] [03:14.81]Now this quivering cipher [03:18.56]Does whatever it's told [03:25.48] [03:42.44]We learned nothing from interrogation [03:45.40]But how turn faith into frost [03:48.92] [03:49.85]Now not even the glow of a cigarette stirred [03:53.72] [03:57.16]Fear came on little rat feet too late [03:59.85]And our own were the voices we lost [04:03.23] [04:04.34]Like the orphan we made of that beautiful word [04:09.51] [04:25.07]That beautiful word fell like the sky [04:29.67]What kind of lullaby [04:33.16] [04:33.76]Turns love into a lie lie lie lie lie lie lie [04:39.57]Say haven't you heard Letters this [04:43.34]High spell out the reason why [04:47.75] [04:48.80]Lie lie lie lie lie [04:55.39] [05:08.81]That beautiful word fell like the sky