Madame Guillotine Track 1 - Lyrics by Legendary Pink Dots


Lyrics
She washed her hands 300 times but still they're dripping red.
We caught her in the pauper's pit, she stole the prince's head, stillcursing 'blasphemy'. O mercy me...
He staggered like a chicken. They lynched him; they left him flinchingthen took theirs [sic] seats and kept on knitting.
God bless the noble savage as he swaggers, as he sweats. He's makingbets on who is next- he doesn't care about the colour...(
First they rounded up the reds but I'm not red so... Then they roundedup the blacks but I'm not blacks so...
Then they rounded up the gypsies and the junkies and donkeys. Now I'mscared to whistle 'swanee' cos they'll ask me for my spit...)
This is the garden that we walk in and it's dying. So we cut it down.
We're drowning now.
There's no way out.
We all fall down.
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