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Artist: The Sisters Of Mercy
Canonical path: /sisters-of-mercy/on-the-wire
Related lyric paths: 6
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On The Wire
Read On The Wire lyrics by The Sisters Of Mercy on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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On The Wire
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On The Wire
Now the ground comes up too fast
Too fast to meet you
In clouds of dust erupting
Thick around your feet, be careful
In the rubble in waiting
Wall to wall where you tread
Now the quick and the dead and the same old
Fates come calling cards away
How do you think it came to pass you
By the hard way by desire
How do you think it came to pass you by?
On the wire
I don't sleep so I don't dream
So I don't wake up frightened
Everything is what it seems if
You look deep enough tonight and
See.....
On the wire
On the wire
On the wire
I will not fall
[repeat]
[repeat x4]
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The Sisters Of Mercy performs "On The Wire", and this lyric page sits inside the The Sisters Of Mercy catalog on LyroVerse.
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