The Raven Lyrics - Sunday At Devil Dirt - Isobel Campbell

And in the dawning of the day in late September 

There came a weeping from outside my chamber door 

Weary from fever I rose up, looked out, beheld her 

A Raven with a broken wing yet nothing more 

I turn my head the once and bird become a damsel 

With lips of cherry, ivory skin and lustrous hair 

Open the doorway wide and smiled for her to enter 

None in my lifetime ever seen a beast so rare 

Sweet thighs of ruin how I loved her, and I loved her 

She muttered low and helped me to her infant breasts 

Deliverance was long and strong as God's my witness 

Babylon burning sorrow known with each caress 

You came and let the night in 

You came for you were broken 

To hold, to heal, to touch 

You needed me too much 

And with the meadowlark when all had done their duty 

The morning glory vine awoke with dew below 

I breathed my last the day the warning bell was knelling 

She smoothed her feathers down, flew back out my window 

You came and let the night in 

You came but you were broken 

To hold, to heal, to touch 

You needed me too much 

You came and let the night in 

You came for you were broken 

To hold, to heal, to touch 

You needed me too much 

You came and let the night in 

You came for you were broken 

To hold, to heal, to touch 

You needed me too much