Slow Birth - Screaming Females

My red ribbon’s soaked with success, my baby is born

Life won’t wait at heaven’s gate, it burns

I tear your sleep with long, white fingers, bless my stupid mouth

You’re just another nail in my house

It’s been a slow birth

Red blood, slow birth

It’s been a slow birth

Red blood, slow birth

I see her face in the garden, planting a white rose

It casts a seed, it turns the latch, it grows

I keep my wires under glass to blink my evil eye

I drown the cross and sand it down, bone dry

Who will rock the cradle when my hands are forced to lie?

My ego sinks, my gate is slight, I die

It’s been a slow birth

Red blood, slow birth

It’s been a slow birth

Red blood, slow birth