Black Thorn

My head is in a black frame

Got your words all over my grave

He was a picture like no one would believe

With a hit flask and a white mask

A flame head and an empty bed, I

Walked a mile out of town just to see

Gravel 'neath the portrait

Your paint covering up the crack, so cracked up

If your coming back to visit me

He was the wealthiest poor man

And he was the emptiest tunnel

'Neath the dark, darkest river to the sea

You were my black thorn

Underneath my ground and now my

My shaking hands forever bleed

Forever bleed

Forever bleed

With a flat hat and a sharpened

Nose a body that crumbled under

The cold and the wind and hail

And rain of our bitter streets

He called me sweetheart

I sold him my soul in return

For his charm and he used

My pain to suck my blood

To suck my blood

He came back twice and

I wore him like an old shirt

Wrapped me up and cut up my

Skin and made me weep, weep, weep weep

Oh, my head is in a black frame

Got your words branded on my brain

I went insane so he could feel like a man again

You were my black thorn

Underneath my ground and now

My shaking hands forever bleed

Forever bleed

Forever bleed

And you were my black thorn

Underneath my ground and now

My shaking hands forever bleed

Oh, and I say it to you

You were my black thorn

Underneath my ground and now

My shaking hands forever bleed

Forever bleed

Forever bleed

Forever bleed

Forever bleed

Forever bleed

Forever bleed