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Artist: Patti Scialfa
Canonical path: /patti-scialfa/black-ladder
Related lyric paths: 6
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Black Ladder
Read Black Ladder lyrics by Patti Scialfa on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Black Ladder
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Little sugar
Take me with you
Tell me I'm the only one
Lift me up to
Your blue heaven
Tell me all my work is donne
I've been down
Your black ladder
I've been down
Your dark stairs
Tell me that our love matters
Tell me that
You care
Little sugar
Dance me slowly
Seven circles around the sun
I've been feeling
Oh so lowly
Tell me all my work is donne
You've been down
My black ladder
You've beendown
My dark stairs
I'll tell you now
That you matter
Tell you darlin'
That I still care
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Patti Scialfa performs "Black Ladder", and this lyric page sits inside the Patti Scialfa catalog on LyroVerse.
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