Thick As Thieves Lyrics - Ophelia - Natalie Merchant

Remember how it all began the apple and the fall of man 

The price we pay so the people say 

Down the path of shame it led us dare to bite the hand that fed us 

Fairy tale the moral end, wheel of fortune never turns again 

Never turns again 

The worst of it is come and gone in the chaos of millennium 

In the falling out of the doomsday crowd 

Their last retreat is moving slow, they burn their bridges as they go 

The heretic is beautified, teach the Harlot's child to smile 

Wracked again by indecision, should we make that small incision? 

Testify to the bleeding heart inside 

We cart, we scratched, we ran, we slashed and when he opened up at last 

Found a cul-de-sac deep and black, smoke and ash 

Deep and black, smoke and ash 

The wicked King of Parody is kissing all his enemies 

On the seventh day of the seventh week 

The tyrant's voice is softer now but just for one forgiving hour 

Before the rise of his iron fist again, fist again 

I've to come tonight, I've come to know the way we are, the way we'll go 

And to measure this width of the wide abyss 

I come to you in restless sleep where all your dreams turn bittersweet 

With voodoo doll philosophies day glow holy trinities 

The crooked raft that leaves the shore, ferries drunken souls aboard 

Pilgrims march to compostle visions of their Saint in yellow 

Follow deep in trance lost in a catatonic dance 

Know no future damn the past, blind, warm, ecstatic, safe at last