Adrienne Rich - Shattered Head lyrics
[Adrienne Rich - Shattered Head lyrics]
A life hauls it'self uphill
Through hoar-mist steaming
The sun’s tongue licking
Leaf upon leaf into stricken liquid
When? When? cry the soothseekers
But time is a bloodshot eye
Seeing it's last of beauty it's own
Foreclosure a bloodshot mind
Finding it'self unspeakable
What is the last thought?
Now I will let you know? Or, Now I know?
(porridge of skull-splinters, brain tissue
Mouth and throat membrane, cranial fluid)
A life hauls it'self uphill
Through hoar-mist steaming
The sun’s tongue licking
Leaf upon leaf into stricken liquid
When? When? cry the soothseekers
But time is a bloodshot eye
Seeing it's last of beauty it's own
Foreclosure a bloodshot mind
Finding it'self unspeakable
What is the last thought?
Now I will let you know? Or, Now I know?
(porridge of skull-splinters, brain tissue
Mouth and throat membrane, cranial fluid)
And the shattered head answers back
And I believed I was loved
I believed I loved who did this to us?
Through hoar-mist steaming
The sun’s tongue licking
Leaf upon leaf into stricken liquid
When? When? cry the soothseekers
But time is a bloodshot eye
Seeing it's last of beauty it's own
Foreclosure a bloodshot mind
Finding it'self unspeakable
What is the last thought?
Now I will let you know? Or, Now I know?
(porridge of skull-splinters, brain tissue
Mouth and throat membrane, cranial fluid)
A life hauls it'self uphill
Through hoar-mist steaming
The sun’s tongue licking
Leaf upon leaf into stricken liquid
When? When? cry the soothseekers
But time is a bloodshot eye
Seeing it's last of beauty it's own
Foreclosure a bloodshot mind
Finding it'self unspeakable
What is the last thought?
Now I will let you know? Or, Now I know?
(porridge of skull-splinters, brain tissue
Mouth and throat membrane, cranial fluid)
And the shattered head answers back
And I believed I was loved
I believed I loved who did this to us?
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