Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song I Am Stretched on Your Grave, artist - Dead Can Dance. Album song Toward the Within, in the genre Date of issue: 23.10.1994
Record label: 4AD
Song language: English
I Am Stretched on Your Grave |
| I am stretched on your grave |
| And I’ll lie here forever |
| If your hands were in mine |
| I’d be sure they would not sever |
| My apple tree, my brightness |
| It’s time we were together |
| For I smell of the earth |
| And I’m worn by the weather |
| When my family think |
| That I am safely in my bed |
| Oh from morn' until night |
| I am stretched at your head |
| Calling out unto the earth |
| With tears hot and wild |
| For the loss of a girl |
| That I loved as a child |
| Do you remember the night |
| Oh, the night when we were lost |
| In the shade of the black-thorn |
| And the touch of the frost? |
| Oh and thanks be to Jesus |
| We did all that was right |
| And your maidenhead still |
| Is your pillar of light |
| Oh the priests and the friars |
| They approach me in dread |
| Oh for love of you still |
| Oh, my life, and you’re dead |
| I still will be your shelter |
| Through rain and through storm |
| And with you in your cold grave |
| I can not sleep warm |
| So I am stretched on your grave |
| And I’ll lie here forever |
| If your hands were in mine |
| I’d be sure they would not sever |
| My apple tree, my brightness |
| It’s time we were together |
| For I smell of the earth |
| And I’m worn by the weather |