《The Story of the Mother》歌词

[00:00:00] The Story Of The Mother - Stephin Merritt

[00:00:08] "Although my child has died " the mother said

[00:00:13] "that doesn't make him permanently dead

[00:00:19] I must petition Death for his return "

[00:00:28] She made her way into the lands below

[00:00:34] There was a rosebush there

[00:00:37] Where things don't grow

[00:00:40] It said "You want your child

[00:00:43] Give me your blood "

[00:00:45] And on a thorn her flesh was torn

[00:00:49] That's how rosebu she's grow down there

[00:00:55] So then she met this great big centipede

[00:01:01] Who wanted something from her

[00:01:04] It decreed: "You want to hold your child

[00:01:10] Give me your arms "

[00:01:12] In lands beneath they grow strange teeth

[00:01:17] To tear your flesh more painfully

[00:01:23] But on she staggered and stumbled

[00:01:26] For her baby's sake

[00:01:29] And found herself beside a talking lake:

[00:01:36] "You want to see your child

[00:01:39] Give me your eyes "

[00:01:41] Which turned to pearls and sank

[00:01:44] In swirls into liquid oblivion

[00:01:54] In the form of a spider

[00:01:57] Death hung there beside her and kissed her

[00:02:02] And made her his wife