Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Dead Can Dance
Canonical path: /dead-can-dance/opium
Related lyric paths: 6
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Opium
Read Opium lyrics by Dead Can Dance on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Opium
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Sometimes
I feel like I wanna live
Far from the metropolis
Just walk through that door
Sometimes
I feel like I want to fly
Reach out to the painted sky
A prisoner to the wind
A bird on the wing
Sometimes
I feel the ocean in my blood
Sea rain from the sky above
Her salt brined tears
And now
Those tears leave a taste on my tongue
Like the warm rush you get from
Black opium
Black opium
Sometimes
I feel like I wanna leave
Behind all these memories
And walk through that door
Outside
The black night calls my name
But all roads look the same
They lead nowhere
They lead nowhere
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Dead Can Dance performs "Opium", and this lyric page sits inside the Dead Can Dance catalog on LyroVerse.
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