Blood Wedding Lyrics - Home Of The Brave - Black 47

Carlita is waiting down on C & 9th 

In mantilla and lace and her lover's knife 

Cries out for revenge, she is silent like a stone 

Beautiful in her widow's weeds 

I wait in the darkness forever now alone 

Too late for any tear shedding 

While his bride waits down on C & 9th 

For her blood wedding 

Why did you have to go out tonight 

With the full moon in scarlet and his silver knife 

Waiting for you and the remains of your life 

Ticking away like some pitiful clock? 

And I, who could not even be called your wife 

Safe and home in your bedding 

And you, the bridegroom off on your way 

To your blood wedding 

And the Ukrainian ladies light candles in the street 

Where his body lay bleeding 

And the projects are silent, bracing for the heat 

That must come from your blood wedding 

Carlita, why do you hate me so much? I long for your body 

I die for your touch on my burning skin 

And the smell of your perfume 

Will always remain on my bed 

But I died every time you entered his room 

I could not let him go on living 

And now you wait down on C & 9th 

Dying to celebrate your blood wedding 

I wait in the shadows of C & 9th 

With my fingers caressing his sacred knife 

You loved my body, he loved my soul 

You thought you knew me 

But what do men know 

Except my lover whose shape 

Is etched in chalk on the street 

Soon to be washed away by the rain 

While you wait in the darkness 

Dreading the shock of my knife at your blood wedding 

And the Ukrainian ladies light candles in the street 

Where his body lay bleeding 

And the projects are silent, bracing for the heat 

That must come from your blood wedding 

And the Ukrainian ladies light candles in the street 

Where his body lay bleeding 

The projects are silent, bracing for the heat 

That must come from his blood wedding 

Yeah, oh yeah 

Oh, yeah, oh