[ti:The Father, the Son and the Harlot's Ghost] [ar:Matt Duke] [al:Acoustic Kingdom Underground] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Father, the Son and the Harlot's Ghost - Matt Duke [00:11.18]So under this tree [00:13.99]Far away from church and state is just you and me [00:19.20]There's no need to watch our backs [00:21.75]We'll just simply be [00:24.54]Kiss me honey sweetly with our eyes closed [00:32.73]Words like a knife [00:35.69]Cut my father's throat and he is seething in spite [00:40.86]Threaten my poor mother so she kneels every night [00:45.85]To a prized God divided in the fight [00:54.65]O' sweet thing [00:58.76]Bombs away [01:01.80]I'll say [01:05.08]To you I leave a pox upon this awful place [01:10.61]And for you I bleed [01:15.86]So string up my girl [01:18.55]Deviant and faithless and a bane to your world [01:23.77]Malintent with ignorance it's all so absurd [01:29.11]Worthless and you're worth it all the same the same [01:36.87]Starve in my cell [01:39.79]Man is bound in shackles between heaven and hell [01:45.29]Whether it's worth dying for is too soon to tell [01:50.52]Bloody mouthed and screaming out her name her name [01:58.84]O' sweet thing [02:02.88]Bombs away [02:05.57]And I'll say [02:08.97]To you I leave a pox upon this awful place [02:14.19]But for you I'll bleed [02:16.88]But every drop would touch and waste in [02:20.27]O' sweet thing [02:23.69]Bombs away [02:27.20]And I'll say [02:30.31]To you I leave a pox upon this awful place [02:35.26]And for you I bleed [02:40.55]There was nothing left [02:42.25]When you bred contempt in a sh*t town [02:45.52]Turning your rats into killers [02:49.63]Killers [02:51.51]Oh holy father I bit my tongue [02:54.19]But your good word's turning [02:55.68]Your saints into sinners [02:58.80]So far gone oh [03:02.65]Under this tree [03:05.14]We grew roots and branches kept a hold of our leaves [03:10.32]They will turn through seasons [03:12.48]And they'll fall to the feet [03:15.19]Of the children that came after us [03:18.03]And the spring [03:20.51]And the spring [03:22.11]And the spring [03:23.14]Oh no oh sweet them [03:27.82]Bombs away [03:30.93]And I'll say [03:34.24]To you I leave a pox upon this awful place [03:39.48]And for you I bleed [03:42.06]Oh every drop was such a waste and [03:45.42]O' sweet thing [03:49.06]Bombs away [03:52.31]And I'll say [03:55.70]To you I leave a pox upon this awful place [04:01.06]And for you I bleed [04:06.77]So under this tree [04:09.51]Far away from church and state is just you and me [04:14.67]There's no need to watch our backs [04:17.51]We'll just simply be [04:20.62]Kiss me honey sweetly with our eyes closed