Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste Lyrics

Walk around the room with a glaze in your stare
In your tuxedo suit
I will give it a name
Lower your defenses
Lower your casket
Open the door and open your grave
Murder
Now you're doing the waltz with your murderer
Mediocrity is the killer
You find yourself helpless
Christ is not a fashoin, fleeting away
He laid emeralds in her eyes
But I'd already tried a bracelt made of gold
And a scarlet thread around her wrist

Everything was wrong so we sang sentimental songs
"Oh how seldom we belong but how elegant our kiss."
We painted crooked lines
But danced in perfect time to a love so much refined
We know not what it is until like a dullen wine we pour into a grief know
Before
But never quite like this
All I know now is regret
It follows like a silhouette along the cobbelstone behind us
But has nothing to say except to innocently ask
Its voice delicate as gla*s
"Do you see me when we pa*s? "
But I continue on my way

Norma Jean - Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child

Aug 2002

1. The Entire World Is Counting On Me, And They Don't Even Know
2. Face : Face
3. Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste
4. Creating Something Out Of Nothing, Only To Destroy It
5. Pretty Soon, I Don;t KNow What, But Something Is Going To Happen
6. The Shotgun Message
7. Sometimes It's Our Mistakes That Make For The Greatest Ideas
8. I Used To Hate Cell Phones But Now I Hate Car Accidents
9. It Was As If The Dead Man Stood Upon The Air
10. The Human Face, Divine
11. Organized Beyond Recognition