Veda (1 Pierce Dr.) Lyrics - The Ambassador - Gabriel Kahane

Take my blood and take my marrow, 

Scrape the meal from my bone, 

Pierce my heart if you please, 

With your arrow, 

But Veda, my darling, 

Come home. 

Darling child, for you I labor, 

Grease and glass in my skin, 

Though you sneer, and crack wise 

I won't waver, but 

Veda, my darling, 

Come in, come in. 

Sweet thing, let me dress you for bed, 

Now slip that gown off your head, 

I'll kiss you one thousand times, my angel. 

Close your eyes, and my savage mind 

Will fashion a day when you'd be tender, 

When you'd be kind. 

For you see the 

Star beneath which you were delivered 

Gave you cold-hearted pride, 

You look down on your mother who loves you; 

You take without grace - though it smarts - 

I don't mind. 

If your lover has done you wrong, you 

Slipped as you gripped his gun 

And found yourself o'er his 

Lifeless body. 

Child, I'd rush to turn myself in and 

Claim that it was my sin, 

To spare you. 

Yes, for darling 

In this town of light and shadow 

Dreams become crooked and low, 

If I've lost my way it was only to please you, 

But Veda, my darling, you already know.