Opium
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She said she'd never come back
To the substance that she craves
That took her out of contact
And shoved her toward the grave
She said, "How can this control me?"
As the answer circled near
"If I just let it patrol me
It will swallow every fear."
So she lets it in and drinks the blood
She swallows whole the flesh
She starts to think it tastes like love
Beautiful and fresh
But the manacles she's worn so long
The ones that made her arms so strong
Are taking hold again
And redefining sin
The image of the worshipped son
Has her in its snare
Now one and one and one make one
And she just doesn't care
There's an itch inside her in that place
Where her fantasies originate
And some ephemeral great face
Seals her irritated fate
She says, "How can this control me
If I just let it patrol me?"
And her sins are washed away
Since the drug is in her veins
She's got it in her brain
That it's something in her veins
And it washes all her sins away
Yeah, it washes all her sense away
How is this controlling
When it's only love unfolding?
When the inlet draws a drop of blood
It's starting up a new great flood.
"How can this control me
If I just let it console me?
If it washes sins away?"
No, it washes sense away.