The Bride Stripped Bare - Shriekback

She’s ready made and weapons grade

Her eyes are brine and luster

That’s never good, and thus you would

Be ill-advised to trust her

Now hear our prayer, yeah like she cares

The bride’s stripped bare

Concatenate the nickelplate

The details still obsess her

Her assemblage is mighty large

Don’t think you could impress her

The crows don’t scare, send up a flare

The bride’s stripped bare

Haven’t got a shoe for my shoelace

Haven’t got a stick for my tongue

Dunno where I stand in the next life

Dunno if I get to see one

Couldn’t go to sleep in the car park

Didn’t have a rock for my head

Couldn’t sing the blues if I tried to

Carry everything you can’t shed

Too rich to sue, too rich for you

Her massive arches tower

The savage truth takes off the roof

It all comes down to power

Her armature forged in the Ruhr

And all is flame and vapor

She’s says it’s true;

if I were you

I’d get it down on paper

This wear and tear you can’t repair

The bride’s stripped bare

The world unmade, the final fade

The arcs of love obey her

But now the source has run its course

They will not long delay her

And who can bear this holy glare?

The bride’s stripped bare

The meat’s too rare, they shaved your hair

The bride’s stripped bare

Gonna make this a letter from a cold hand

Make a big unveiling of the damage

Make this lousy object sing to you

I change my nature be a force for good

Run a good straight arrow through the Devil’s heart

Show I have the will but leave the deed undone

Take a dive in the eleventh round

Gonna burn the flags out in the streets at night

Gonna make this a letter from a cold hand

Make a big unveiling of the damage

Make this lousy object sing to you

Run a good straight arrow through the Devil’s heart

Show I have the will but leave the deed undone

Take a dive in the eleventh round

Gonna burn the flags out in the streets at night