Thick As Thieves (2005 Version)-Natalie Merchant

[ti:Thick As Thieves] [ar:Natalie Merchant] [al:Retrospective 1990-2005 (Ltd. Deluxe Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Thick As Thieves (2005 Version) - Natalie Merchant [00:04.51]Remember how it all began [00:08.25]The apple and the fall of man [00:10.80] [00:11.56]The price we paid [00:14.07]So the people say [00:17.43] [00:19.24]Down a path of shame it lead us [00:23.45]Dared to bite the hand that fed us [00:26.59] [00:27.70]The fairy tale [00:29.10]The moral end [00:31.28]The wheel of fortune [00:32.73]Never turns again [00:34.52] [01:01.75]The worst of it has come and gone [01:05.51]In the chaos of millennium [01:09.49]In the falling out of the doomsday crowd [01:16.59]Their last retreat is moving slow [01:20.31] [01:21.01]They burn their bridges as they go [01:24.52]The heretic is beatified [01:28.43] [01:29.03]He'll teach the harlot's child to smile [01:32.23] [01:59.01]Wracked again by indecision [02:02.33] [02:03.45]Should we make that small incision [02:07.52] [02:08.45]Testify to the bleeding heart inside [02:13.23] [02:14.71]We cut we scratched [02:16.79]We rent we slashed [02:18.21]And when he opened up at last [02:22.51]Found a cul-de-sac [02:24.71]Deep and black [02:25.72] [02:28.83]Of smoke and ash [02:31.73] [02:59.05]The wicked king of parody [03:02.38] [03:03.85]Is kissing all his enemies [03:06.54]On the seventh day [03:08.16] [03:10.26]Of the seventh week [03:11.51] [03:14.21]The tyrant's voice is softer now [03:17.52]But just for one forgiving hour [03:20.21] [03:21.99]Before the rise of his [03:25.73] [03:26.37]Iron fist again [03:29.79] [04:53.73]I've come tonight [04:56.17]I've come to know [04:58.57]The way we are [04:59.74]The way we'll go [05:01.47]Come to measure this [05:03.51] [05:04.43]The width of the wide abyss [05:06.56] [05:08.43]I come to you in restless sleep [05:12.05]Where all your dreams turn bitter-sweet [05:16.18] [05:17.75]With voodoo doll philosophies [05:20.47] [05:21.28]And day-glo holy trinities [05:23.71] [05:24.86]The crooked raft that leaves the shore [05:28.27]Ferries drunken souls aboard [05:31.09] [05:31.70]Pilgrims march to Compestela [05:33.54] [05:34.67]Visions of their saint in yellow [05:38.73]All follow deep in trance [05:41.08]Lost in a catatonic dance [05:43.34] [05:44.76]Know no future [05:46.43]Damn the past [05:48.18]Blind warm ecstatic [05:51.15]Safe at last