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Carmelita Lyrics by A.S. Fanning

Second Life

2015

[Verse 1]
We walked round
Like zombies in the burying grounds
Like vultures in the sky watch a dying man
In the right city
Right on the wrong side of town
Like ghosts we don't make a sound
[Verse 2]
I kept quite I didn't care to feel your light
And with the black Madonna as my guide
With the wild demon Jesus running by my side
I didn't care to feel your light
[Chorus]
Oh Carmelita hold me tighter
Does Mary pray for us
When we're all strung out on heroin
Sitting down the back of the bus
[Verse 3]
Feel no pain
Everything is right as rain
This city seems to know my name
She opens up her legs and opening her vein
Shines a light for me again
[Verse 4]
Feel no more I do not care to fight that war
In a sordid leather jacket kneeling on the floor
For forty minutes dying and forty years more
I do not care to fight that war
[Chorus]
Oh Carmelita hold me tighter
Does Mary pray for us
When we're all strung out on heroin
Sitting at the back of the bus
[Verse 5]
There's pretty girls on the boardwalk tonight
Pick up your cans of cider boys line up to the right
They hitch up there skirts they'll drink till they fight
And I won't look away
All alone and divided we stand
With the marks of carelessness blackened in our hands
I don't know no I don't understand
But I won't walk away
[Verse 6]
Feel no more I do not care to fight that war
In a sordid leather jacket kneeling on the floor
For forty minutes dying and forty fucking years more
But the rats in the road
And the leeches at the door
At eight in the morning man I can't help you score
I do not care to fight that war
[Chorus]
Oh Carmelita hold me tighter
Does Mary pray for us
When we're all strung out on heroin
Sitting at the back of the bus
[Chorus]
Oh Carmelita hold me tighter
Does Mary pray for us
When we're all strung out on heroin
Sitting at the back of the bus
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A.S. Fanning

A.S. Fanning

About “Carmelita” by A.S. Fanning

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"Carmelita" appears on "Second Life" in 2015.

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