Rolling Thunder - Laura Marling

Getting closer to the gasping prey To learn the need of private war Hand in hand with rotting death Return to god in parts Without remorse Damnation on my rusty skin Curtain fire in my head Unconsciously killing all the dead Just fire and forget Abstracted deep in lust Just fell in love with guns Don't wonder You are a part of rolling thunder Rolling Thunder Rolling Thunder I struggled with myself When I looked into those hollow eyes Upheld that fragile honor That dissapeared into the endlessness of time You are a part of rolling thunder Rolling Thunder Rolling Thunder I chose the path of blind dissension I never woke up when I heard the cries My everlasting hate to be revealed As kids were dying by their mother's side I earned the seed of retaliation Destroyed the fruits of human race Desensitized by blood and ichor Returning home with a bag on my face Abstracted deep in lust Just fell in love with guns Don't wonder You are a part of rolling thunder Rolling Thunder Rolling Thunder I struggled with myself When I looked into those hollow eyes Upheld that fragile honor That disappeared into the endlessness of time

It's the weight below us And our fate before us Like a rolling thunder Rolling up from under Don't ever leave me this way I know it's getting harder but hey If your world should crumble, yeah And the rain gets in Running through your skin Soaking you outside in The rain, see it falling But I don't know how long it will be Until the storm is over But I'll wait, I will Like the years of silence To the growing violence Like a rolling thunder Rolling up from under Don't ever leave me this way Wait a little longer, yeah, stay Through the night I tumble, yeah When the rain comes in I will shed my skin Losing it from within See the rain, it's falling But I won't be leaving your side Until all is over But I'll wait, I will So many lifetimes You've been waiting for it All through the good times When you tried to ignore it You hesitate It's come too late You hear the sound Of when wheels engage When the rain comes in I will shed my skin Losing it from within The rain keeps falling But I won't be leaving your side Until all is over But I'll wait, I will But I don't know how long it will be Until the storm is over But I'll wait, I will All is over But I'll wait, I will

What became of Alexandra Did she make it through? What kind of woman gets to love you? Wrote us all a little note Nothing left to lose What kind of woman gets to love you? I need to know Where did Alexandra go? Alexandra had no fear She lived out in the woods She'd tell you what you're doing wrong If she thinks she'll be understood Pulls her socks up to her knees Finds diamonds in the drain One more diamond to add to her chain I need to know Where does Alexandra go? Where did Alexandra go? It won't change how I'm feeling But you can try to help me understand If she loved you like a woman Did you feel like a man? I need to know Where did Alexandra go? Where did Alexandra go? You had to say, your shit to bed You could not bear the unsaid I had to try, a fuck to give Why should I die so you can live? What did Alexandra know? What did Alexandra know? What did Alexandra know?

Break the water Make a ripple once in a while Wake, it's morning we've been sleeping for a while Now forget what you're owed That your tired, time's getting on. So lay down your load You're fine I'm yours and you're mine You're fine I'm yours and you're mine. Hold tight stranger I sense danger that wont show Who holds the hand that holds the gun You might never know But when the note lingers Sending shivers down my spine I feel in my fingers That I'm one with something divine It's divine. I didn't drink a drop in weeks All the waiting's only made it sweet I tried not to freeze you before you thaw Tried not to burn you and wait some more When you ask what's coming you've already chosen When you know you're winning you're already losing It's divine Now forget what you're owed That you're tired, time's getting on. So lay down your load You're fine I'm yours and you're mine It's divine

He means to ride me on, He sees a battle he don't want to face alone I bolt upwards and shake him off my back He falls to his knees, on to a bloody track Well I can't be your horse any more You're not the warrior I've been looking for I see what you mean to do with me I cannot protect you from who you want to be Go face the Lord on your own You have my love but it will not make you grow I can't be your horse anymore You're not the warrior I would die for He fearing solitude, began to beg When he saw I was sure, stuck a knife into my leg Good luck walking on in your own bloody trail This noble path you're on will send us both to hell I'm just a horse on the moor Where is my warrior I've been looking for? I stumble some way on, licking my sores, Tasting the memory of pain I have endured Wondering where am I to go? Well looking back on a bloody trail, you think that I should know But I'm just a horse with no name Somewhere there is other beasts who think the same I'm just a horse with no name Some place there's some other beasts who think the same One morning I awoke to someone calling me A priestess I'd seen once in some arcana dream And she pulled an orange from the ground Is this my warrior? I am found I'm just a horse with no name Where are my other beasts who think the same? I'm just a horse on the moor Where is the warrior I've been looking for?

She sings along to sailor's song In a dress that she made When she's gone I sing along But it doesn't sound the same Oh Nouel, you sing so well Sing only for me Fickle and changeable Though I may always be I pulled a thorn from her tiny paw Her feet were unclean Fetch water, blessed twice And hand a sponge to me I do well to serve Nouel Whatever service I may be Fickle and changeable Weighing down on me She speaks a word and it gently turns To perfect metaphor She likes to say I only play When I know what I'm playing for Oh Nouel, you know me well And I didn't even show you the scar Fickle and changeable Semper femina She'd like to be the kind of free Women still can't be alone How I wish I could hit the switch That keeps you from getting gone Oh Nouel, it hurts like hell When you're so afraid to die Semper femina So am I She lays herself across the bed The origine du monde Slight of shoulder, long and legged Her hair a faded blonde Oh Nouel, you sit so well A thousand artists' muse But you'll be anything you choose Fickle and changeable are you And long may that continue I do well to serve Nouel My only guiding star Fickle and changeable Semper femina