Hell-On

NEKO CASE - HELL-ON album version - HELL-ON __________________________________ __________________________________ [INTRO] [VERSE 1] God is not a contract or a guy God is an unspecified tide You cannot time its tables It sets no glass or gables God is a lusty tire fire Its bristles scrape and strike the stage A rock paper scissors rage Have mercy on the natural world [VERSE 2] My voice is not    the liquid waves The perfect ring    ’round a heron’s legs My voice is straight garotting wire A stolen mile of fingerprints Hear the quiet from the dunes Captured and respooled as ruin To be used at a different time My voice is a frature for shinbone’s lust Pounding barefoot ground it lifts you up and sits you just Just at sorrows waterline I drape you on tomorrow’s plate Ferrous metal marrow spilling not yours but mine I’m an agent of the natural world [CHORUS] Don’t you tell me I didn’t warn you That that’s some gravity ought not to play with Don’t you tell me I didn’t warn you That that’s some gravity ought not to play with [BRIDGE] Nothin quite so poison as a promise Nothin quite so poison as a promise Nothin quite so poison as a promise Nothin quite so poison as a promise [INTERLUDE]    [VERSE 3] And me I am not a myth I am a wilderness yes The undiscovered continent For you to undress But you’ll not be my master You’re barely my guest You don’t have permission to take any pictures Be careful of the natural world Nature can’t ammend its ways Boils Hell-On and then we play        Despite heartfelt springtimes of regret The storm she still cries for days Have mercy on the natural world [OUTRO]