Skeleton Key

from YouTube Project by J Andrew

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The record spins, the music plays
The shadows dance in a cigarette haze
Her fire roars inside my head
I've heard it once, let's hear it again

Jesus Iscariot plays cards at dawn
Can never tell which side he is on
Our eyes collide cross the tabletop
He'll never know how much I've lost

The angel whispers in to my ear
"What'd you think that you would fine here?"
I grab your hand as the city falls
You turn away I'll turn to salt

Tamara cries as her kingdom dies
Her sons of fortune meet their demise
And Titus sits with his hand in blood
The other's buried 'neath Roman mud

Beneath the sheets where love once laid
Juliet holds a dagger's blade
She falls asleep singing siren's songs
Knew I had to wait, never knew how long

She burns the book as the pages turn
And I just watch but I never learn
'Cause every word that I try to read
Just melts to ink as the paper bleeds

So if you see her tell her I
been chasing rain 'neath a cloudless sky
So she can find me on the shore of the sea
Digging for a skeleton key

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from YouTube Project, track released June 16, 2011

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