Loving Hand of God-Orchid

[ti:Loving Hand of God] [ar:Orchid] [al:The Mouths of Madness] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Loving Hand of God - Orchid [00:39.55]I was born into this world on the seventh day of June [00:46.42]No sunshine broke the sky as I arrived [00:53.03]My father was a rector with a hard and heavy hand [00:59.65]My mother was thirteen and not his wife [01:06.69]She gave me to the sisters on the farthest edge of town [01:12.98]No one would be the wise or see my face [01:20.10]I became a man raised up by cemetery wolves [01:26.54]We earned our keep by digging beggar's graves [01:31.16] [01:33.89]I guess that's just the way they showed me [01:38.39]The loving hand of God [01:44.19] [01:45.03]Loving hand of God [01:47.90] [01:52.96]When fifteen years had passed [01:55.26]They put me out upon the stones [01:59.75]To make my way with gypsies and with thieves [02:06.37]A kindly hearted cropper took me on to till his land [02:12.92]I'd work until my fingers they did bleed [02:19.54]His daughter was a deaf and mute with kind and loving eyes [02:26.34]The color of the bluest summer sky [02:32.89]A love grew strong between us [02:35.45]And I asked to take her hand [02:39.31]But the father said he'd sooner see her die [02:44.12] [02:46.87]I guess that's just the way he showed me [02:51.31]The loving hand of God [02:57.98]Loving hand of God [03:00.85] [04:54.13]And in the spring we stole away to find a life anew [05:00.54]With pennies and our bags to make our way [05:07.10]We found work with the magistrate tending to his land [05:13.72]And happiness was born again each day [05:20.51]And in the fall I married her and summer brought a child [05:27.01]In which there was no sign of me at all [05:33.31]And when I said that son of mine did have her father's eyes [05:39.92]She wept and said that he had come to call [05:44.85] [05:47.34]I guess that's just the way he showed me [05:51.65]The loving hand of God [05:58.26]Loving hand of God [06:01.45] [06:04.83]End