I see an angel that hangs suspended In chains, in space between us And its outspread wings cast a shadow like a hand across your mouth
So I plucked its feather fingers, Bought your lips their liberation And I taught your tongue to sing the song It's so long searching for
The Black Lullaby, Black Lullaby That seeps between the stitches In this sundered serenade Black Lullaby, Black Lullaby That tears away the veils in the Lover's Masquerade
I heard Vincent lost his mind Raving, bloodied, at his canvas 'Cause his eyes screamed out for colours This dim sphere could not provide
I ransacked the library For the scores of great composers Joined the dots, and found some kind of Lunatic's naked sketch of you
And a Black Lullaby, Black Lullaby That tears away the torpor Like a hurricane of sound Black Lullaby, Black Lullaby That leads me with its echo to where Lost souls can be found
I tore the throat out of the wind, Gagged the mouth of every river Smashed all Beethoven's fingers Cut the beaks off all the birds
'Cause I couldn't take the clatter Of their sorry, jealous music That clings to my skin like leeches Trying to suck away the sound
Of your Black Lullaby, Black Lullaby Rend apart the shackles That keep the yearning tethered tight And sing the Black Lullaby, Black Lullaby The perfect hymn of flesh we sing together in the night