The Blood Lyrics

The Blood - Frontier Ruckus
Email: sskinner@wit.edu
The Orion Songbook: Track 6
Matthew Milia: songs, voice, guitar, harmonica, pedal steel
David W. Jones: banjo, voice, dobro
Zachary Nichols: brass, singing-saw, melodica, keyboards
Ryan Etzcorn: drums, percussion
Dm (riff)
Verse I
Am C Fmaj7 Dm (riff)
The black figure of my body above your window as youre dreaming
I came to wake you and take you up north
Am C Fmaj7 Dm (riff)
The yard was wet, the heavens forget the way things are seeming
For us who must stumble in yards dark as horses
Am C Famj7 Dm (riff)
Your dream went like this, John the Bap-tist came back vapor veiled
With grand expec-tations for what he had started
Am C Fmaj7 Dm (riff)
And you couldnt res-ist, you gave him the gist about how things failed
And how all but one fire-heart had departed
And that you were her, and you were sure
That you had the Blood, that you had the Blood
That all is made of
And that is alright, that is alright
I cannot think of a better dove
To carry the Blood
C Fmaj7 Dm(riff) Am C Fmaj7 Dm (riff)
Verse II
Am C Fmaj7 Dm (riff)
The canal was bright, its innards ignite when moon stretches tight
To show the cargo the floating is gliding
Am C Fmaj7 Dm (riff)
The edges are dark, its channeled by bark, it carries the mark
Of every speckle of guilt I was hiding
Verse III
The bathroom does taste of menstruation
Fmaj7 Dm (riff)
chasing night-musk through window screen
Like wounded doves all pretty things bleed
Like my highway dream, Judas re-deemed for the one kiss he rode on
Our spirits ride canals and never in deeds
Verse IV
Deeds do go, and deeds do not
Carry the Blood, carry the Blood
That all is made of
Carry it right, all through the night
Till you see what we are of a dove
that carries the Blood
C Fmaj7 Dm(riff) Am C Fmaj7 Dm Am
Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch'v=7qtsZ-nCGRs
http://www.frontierruckus.com/songbook/
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