Master

Master don't sleep anymore
Little shade on the broken floor
Thread of dark on his ragged heart
Where I held him before

Once he was king of the thieves
Killer's smile and a rose in his teeth
And Mamma
No vision governed me

Now in his eyes I see no pain
Little hope was left and when that sickness came
In the road with a trembling frame
Was a shape I had known

And it was foolish to pray
But I undressed by the light of his phone
And I knelt in the dust
And confessed that I could not go on

Oh!
There's a woman in the road
She's lost like a leper in a street off Saville Row

Oh!
There are voices in my home
What they said I just don't know
Lowered eyes and hands I long to hold

Oh lord the shadow he made
Sick heart formed in a figure of hate
And all that I knew was that heavenly weight
Laying low in the dark

He bared his throat by the river plains
Told me those were not stars those were lights from the cranes
But I wished on them all the same
And bled into his arms

And leaning in close,
He said I love you the most but I've still gotta go
And mamma
I done fell in love
With a dead boy I know

Oh!
There's a woman in the road
She's lost like a leper in a street off Saville Row

Oh!
There are voices in my home
What they said I just don't know
Lowered eyes and hands I long now to hold

So come now to speak his name
And see this life is a violent game
Telling me all of the reasons she came back for you

For I will rise up like the sea
I will rise up like the sea
Still I recall you were talking so brave and so true
Just like you used to