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Helpless Child

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Swans Canonical path: /swans/helpless-child Related lyric paths: 6
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Helpless Child

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Now you be the mother and

I'll be your fool

I'll hide myself deep inside

Your crimson pool

The muddy water runs

Beneath your folds

You won't let me breathe;

You won't let me go

Now you'll be the stranger and

I'll be the white-skinned son

You'll blacken my innocence

With sugar and opium

The children were suffocating

Down in your damp cave

And you were the mother

And I was the sleeping slave

Protect me from violence

Hold me in your cool lips

You'll drug me with kindness

So I can pretend I exist

Now you be the only child

I'll suck on your breast

You'll feed me with gasoline

I'll burn my name in your head

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