Crystal Wrists

By Peter Murphy

On Deep

Released on 1989

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[Verse 1]

I can't see the light, I'm thrown in disgust

They speak of feats he housed forever

A howling wind changed my course

It blew me out of bounds so sore


[Pre-Chorus]

All the walls

All the walls that bound me

Descending bleak and put upon


[Chorus]

I chew my cheeks, to wake up numb

A vase grows bigger to my eyes

These eyes that snigger and despise

A wall grows taller up to doom


[Verse 2]

Shoes in my room thrown in disgust

At how I fall to my worst

Of course you say you don't understand

Your words, your fiction, your crooked hands


[Chorus]

But clearly now, I tell you, man

That all I say is all I can

For I am nothing but my sin

Until I learn to cast them in


[Verse 3]

While young girls fangs and crystal wrists

Wait patiently for me to twist

I look away to distant rains

To waterfalls and honey days

And boys in black and blue rinse eyes

Gaze whistly at my slender thighs


[Chorus]

I twist a shade to my right

And spit at Beelzebub on sight

And go on loving all I see

For here I live on patiently

Clearly now, I tell you, man

That all I say is all I can

For I am nothing but my sin

Until I learn to caste them in


[Chorus]

I twist a shade to my right

And spit at Beelzebub on sight

And go on loving all I see

For here I live on patiently

Clearly now, I tell you, man

That all I say is all I can

For I am nothing but my sin

Until I learn

Learn, learn, learn