The New Black - Tidelands

Tongue-tied while I’m perceiving

The evil eye as it watches me

Spend and burn

Like I’m this months' style worn by last months' girl

I won’t try to hide it

I’m here to confess I’ve been acquired

Like everyone else you see

By blood and dust and sin and ruin

Oh, if you’ve got a lie well I’m buying

Haven’t you heard the new black is denial?

Twist on the knife all you husbands and wives

Cold is the gun that we give to our sons

The evening will come when the bough will break

And the baby falls naked in the ice-cold lake

As mother screams «I told you so»

We’ll pay our debts by growing old alone

That’s right,

Haven’t you heard the new black is not trying?

Twist on the knife all you husbands and wives

Cold is the gun that we give to our sons

To rape the world for our reward