Black-hearted Boy Lyrics - Singles - The Fiery Furnaces

Darling black-hearted boy 

All the color's gone out of my ribbon loom 

As i've only got the worst to assume 

Take your sheet metal sheers 

Cut a slit up the side of my dark blue dress 

For a last time lie your love confess 

Get your gut 

Some home made twine 

String up silk your tiger bow 

Don't paint your board 

Moonlight white 

Go dangle your fishook out in the gutter again 

See the smoke from your kiln 

Pine boughs burn the bricks dead hard in their fog 

As i stand cold with my back broke by the bog 

Find your cross cut saw 

Come blunt and jagged and dry and try 

Cut my tongue out to keep on your wall up high 

I tipped my toe 

On the bamboo strip 

I took stone honey in exchange for my rags 

Don't dare paint your board 

Moonlight white 

Go dangle your fishook out in the gutter again 

See the smoke from your kiln 

Pine boughs burn the bricks dead hard in their fog 

As i stand cold with my back broke by the bog 

Find your cross cut saw 

Come blunt and jagged and dry and try 

Cut my tongue out to keep on your wall up high 

I tipped my toe 

On the bamboo strip 

I took stone honey in exchange for my rags 

Don't dare paint your board 

Moonlight white 

Go dangle your fishook out in the gutter again 

Darling black-hearted boy 

I went down to wash my robe in the river 

I thought of you and started to shake and to shiver 

Leaning there on the rocks 

I see myself slip down and float 

'Til the brackish warm current stops up my throat 

You swore you swore you'd never leave 

You swore you swore you'd never leave 

You swore you swore you'd never leave