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Mistress Dread

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Mistress Dread

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I'm built like you are

I have a dress and a train

Your snake cold lips

Make a harsh straight line

That echoes through my brain

You're perfect

Let me lift a glass high

Let me follow in your footsteps

Let me follow in your sigh

Let me follow in your sigh

I'm a woman who likes men

But this is something else

I've never felt such stirrings

I feel like I

Was someone else

I wish you'd tie me up and beat me

Crush me like a kick

A bleeding strap across my back

Some blood that you could kiss

Oh kiss away, oh kiss away

I wish there was a strap of blood

That you could kiss away

I wish there was a strap of blood

That you could kiss away

Tie me with a scarf and jewels

Put a bloody gag to my teeth

I beg you to degrade me

Is there waste that I could eat

I am a secret lover

I am your little girl

Please spit into my mouth

I'm forever in your swirl

You're heartless and I love that

You have no use of me

But I open the sticks, sticky legs I bear

And then insert a fist, an arm

Some lost appendage

Please open me I beg

You are my goliath

You are my goliath

And I am mistress dread

Oh I am mistress dread

Oh I am mistress dread

Open and release me

I love you in my head

Oh kiss away kiss away

Kiss away kiss away

All I ask my baby

Kiss away

All I ask my baby

Kiss away

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