(not a) godless woman
I
i drempt this up the night you showed me where the lilies grow...
i said 'youre gonna have to duke it out with annie--she's my cocaine, you know'
there aint no sacrament that tastes as good as what we got below
but you would not go
and then i awoke...
and i saw the ink i bleed
is the blood i need
to write this song
and the word i heed
and what i believe
won't last this long
and the scars that tell the story
on my arms are thick and strong
as i need to be
if i refuse to see
im not a godless woman
II
i wrote this out the morning after i felt you shift the ground
you told me more than i could handle without ever making a sound
i had no idea i was lost until the day i was so suddenly found
and i feel you smile
'gee it took you a while'
and this life i knew
and the years i blew
don't matter now
and i look to you
and what i eschewed
and i wonder how
and the scars i got on my arms
they still speak, but they cant do no harm
cuz i know by now
and i can say out loud
i'm not a godless woman
bridge
and youre why i lived the night i thought i'd give it all back but somehow i still woke up
and i couldnt see it then--as the nurses tended to me i blamed it all on them cuz i did not want to breathe but it wasnt their machines
it was you moving through me....
III
i sing this out today because i see i never walked alone
and i cant be silent--i gotta tell the world all that ive been shown
i figure you don't give people stories like this if they're not meant to be known
you're here with me
right where you'll always be
and the story i tell
came from all of the hell
that went before
i got nothing to sell
my soul rings like a bell
because i am yours
and there's nothing that's worth a new scar on my skin
there's no power in sin
i am forgiven
im not a godless woman
i was never
a godless woman
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