(Open Up Your) Filthy Heart (To Me) - Shriekback

High above through veils of cloud I look on you again

You’re beautiful as always in this light

About you shame and ignorance are clinging like a shroud

But I can’t wait to be with you tonight

No angels walk beside you now

No heroes hold your hands

Your heart was broken but your mind’s still free

And down below me you are waiting smiling like a ghost

Come open up your filthy heart to me

Into your arms so long ago in innocence and fear

I asked you for your dreams to make me wise

Like a priestess like a whore you took me by the hand

And showed me all your mysteries and lies

But everywhere I go there still are echoes of you now

Your golden streets that no one ever sees

And all I ask is one last time

Before my time has passed

Come open up your filthy heart to me

Mad dogs and millionaires have breathed upon your eyes

Their rituals are sordid and so bland

They whisper their banalaties

They fawn and patronise

How little all your suitors understand

They try to dress you up like someone younger and more free

Ridiculous they try to make you seem

When what you are is perfect and I need no more than this

Come open up your filthy heart to me

Come open up your filthy heart to me