Wife Of Ruin

F# Walking this strict, straight line D#m Sure, I’m scared, C# To touch on the divine, C# To lay this pain beside. F# It’s patterned into my mind D#m But I’ve strayed, C# I’ve strayed too many times, C# To set the thing aside F# And I want to lay, D#m To lay this pain on backwards! C# I want to twist it over, A#m I want to see it reversed. F# I want to portray D#m Woman more than the betrayal C# The blood beneath the nails… C# The iron before the male D#m For if the myth A#m* Is made by man D#m Then it’s the man A#m Who picks the knife. D#m If it’s the god A#m* Whose gaze does graze D#m Then it’s the girl... F# Who takes his eyes. F# Walking this strict, straight line D#m Sure, I’m scared, C# To touch on the divine, C# To lay this pain beside… F# The punishment set aside D#m For figure fair, C# For hair that caught the light, C# Both kept and left behind, C# The horn, the stone, the knife, C# The deathbed for the wife F# (don't look down) And I want to lay, D#m (on me now) To lay this pain on backwards! i won't be left behind, C# (i won't be cowed) I want to twist it over, A#m (i won't be crowned.) I want to see its inverse i have the horn, the knife, myself, this time. F# (don't look down.) I want to stand D#m (at me now) On the wreck of desecration! and if this ruin's MINE C# (i won't be cowed) I want to desecrate him C# (i won't be crowned.) I’ll be the wife of ruin see, keep it in a sheath, not in my side. D#m Cause it’s the myth A#m* (if he reaches out...) That makes the man… D#m But I’m afraid A#m (i have no doubt.) Of no man’s knife D#m And god forbid A#m* (oh, don't look down...) He’s heaven-sent D#m Cause if he is… F# I’ll take his eyes. D#m Oh, god forbid F# He’s heaven-sent D#m Cause if he is… F# I’ll take his life.