Wai

by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

From the album: The Letting Go

Track 3 of 13 on The Letting Go (2006).

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Lyrics for Wai

The lameness of an unborn child The tidiness of cry The only way I'm leaving here Is curling up and die The way our shelter moves above Controlled by just my hand Insures the death you're dreaming of The drowning down of man O love, O love, O careless love I only want to lay with you My love, my love, my carefull love I've found the hard way love is true And always love the smiling one And rounding out will come With bitter bile and heartless fun And consciousness made numb And fearful hate that's steming out From fear and only fear Has made your inner croco shout And bring his victims here O love, O love, O careless love I only want to lay with you My love, my love, my carefull love I've found the hard way love is true A creature born in listlessness His hatred to become It's here his love is swollen in And consciousness made numb And relegate your youth and trust Your table and your skin And share the love the godly must And hold it til the end O love, O love, O careless love I only want to lay with you My love, my love, my carefull love I've found the hard way love is true I only want to lay with you My love, my love, my carefull love I've found the hard way love is true

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More from The Letting Go

  1. Love Comes To Me
  2. Strange Form Of Life
  3. Wai
  4. Cursed Sleep
  5. No Bad News
  6. Cold & Wet
  7. Big Friday
  8. Lay And Love
  9. The Seedling
  10. Then The Letting Go
  11. God's Small Song
  12. I Called You Back
  13. [untitled track]