SONGS:
-- Beautiful Creatures --
Montreal, October 25/04


Found on:

Life Short Call Now (2006)

Rumours of Glory - box set Disc 7 (2014) [compilation album]
Lyrics:

There's a knot in my gut
As I gaze out today
On the planes of the city
All polychrome grey
When the skin is peeled off it
What is there to say?
The beautiful creatures are going away

Like a dam on a river
My conscience is pressed
By the weight of hard feelings
Piled up in my breast
The callous and vicious things
Humans display
The beautiful creatures are going away

Why? Why?

From the stones of the fortress
To the shapes in the air
To the ache in the spirit
We label despair
We create what destroys,
Bind ourselves to betray
The beautiful creatures going away



Editors Note: This song, Beautiful Creatures, was first played in front of humans on 17 October 2005, at Ram's Head in Annapolis, MD, USA. ~from Ruth Alice White.


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