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Artist: Mark Lanegan
Canonical path: /mark-lanegan/playing-nero
Related lyric paths: 6
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Playing Nero
Read Playing Nero lyrics by Mark Lanegan on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Playing Nero
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Can't believe what I'm hearing
Stone cold statuary blue
On the telephone
Can't believe what I'm feeling
Bone cold after what you said
In blood, written bold
Raspberry red
Up upon the rock
Where an angel stood
With a rifle stock
Underneath his foot
No matter anyway
I have won the part
On this stage today
Playing Nero
They said he would fall
And fall he did
Before he had to crawl
Can't believe what I'm hearing
Stone, stone, stone cold statuary blue
On the telephone
Can't believe how I'm reeling
A spinning top
All around my head
A dirty mop
Wringing out the dead
Can't you make it stop
Remember what you said
Playing Nero
They said he would fall
And fall he did
Before he had to crawl
Can't believe what I'm seeing
So sick
The tenement block
The crumbling brick
Can't believe what I'm feeling
Bone cold
After what you said
In blood, written bold
Raspberry red
Playing Nero
They said he would fall
And fall he did
And fall he did
And fall he did
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Mark Lanegan performs "Playing Nero", and this lyric page sits inside the Mark Lanegan catalog on LyroVerse.
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