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Artist: Hole
Canonical path: /hole/turpentine
Related lyric paths: 6
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Turpentine
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Turpentine
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Devil come down here and look you in the eye
Where you're gonna go with no place to die?
My water breaks like turpentine
And I sit dead in the sacrifice
And you get to watch, you get to watch
Now you get to watch me die
Bless my body and bless my soul
Wrap it in turpentine
I see you standing, whatever for?
All abandoned like an old whore
Who really knows where the ruby rides?
I see all the sick reflections in your ruby eyes
And I know all you devils by your Christian names
And I know all you bitches by your Christian names
And you get to watch, I get to watch
Now I get to watch you die
Bless my body and bless my soul
Wrap it in turpentine
Acrid, syphilic coteries
Put your head up over your legs
Count backwards from infinity
Say "oh oh whoa"
Eat the rose and the dirt it grows in
They don't even know what hole that's supposed to go in
And now you're mad and you're slapping me
It stinks up here in the junkie tree
And you get to watch, you get to watch
Now you get to watch me die
Bless my body and bless my soul
Wrap it in turpentine
Acrid, syphilic coteries
Put your legs up over your head
I've been walking to your suicide
See the human hometown suicide
I've ceased to exist on the Christmas list
I've ceased to exist in your disease
I lie right down
Baby, give it to me
I lie right now
Nowhere walking, backwards going
Nowhere walking, backwards going
Nowhere walking, backwards going
Nowhere... black was gold
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