Matthew Perryman Jones - Land of the Living

Poisoning the Well

Jilted tongues
In sorrow sleep
Leaving long hard words
To lie in deep

Follow home
The awful truth
Feel the silent loss
Of guileless youth

A dead man walks
A crowded street
Into the place the grand
Assembly meets

Guilty hands
Stitched on their mouths
And arrowed fingers aim
To point you out

Oh, strain to tell
Sound the mission bell
The magistrate
Is poisoning the well

Innocent blood
Has stained the tree
Heads in sorrow hang
While walking free

Seven days
Beneath the storm
The bottle washed up on
A desert shore

Oh, strain to tell
Sound the mission bell
The magistrate
Is poisoning the well

Oh, strain to tell
Sound the mission bell
The magistrate
Is poisoning the well

Poisoning
poisoning
poisoning
poisoning
poisoning
poisoning...



Credits
Writer(s): Matthew Perryman Jones, Donald William Chaffer
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Stones From the Riverbed
  2. Poisoning the Well
  3. I Won't Let You Down Again
  4. O Theo
  5. Sleeping With a Stranger
  6. Waking the Dead
  7. Keep It On the Inside
  8. Canción de la Noche
  9. The Angels Were Singing
  10. Land of the Living

All Album Tracks: Land of the Living >

Altri album

  1. Intimate Strangers
  2. Learning to Fall - Single
  3. Belly of the Beast - Single
  4. The Waking Hours
  5. Lovers in Another Life
  6. Anything Goes
  7. Careless Man (feat. Young Summer) - Single
  8. Careless Man
  9. Land of the Living (From the Trailer of "Manchester by the Sea")
  10. Living in the Shadows

All Albums of Matthew Perryman Jones >

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