Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song A Very Grave Business , by - Gorerotted. Song from the album A New Dawn For The Dead, in the genre Release date: 01.09.2008
Record label: Metal Blade Records
Song language: English
A Very Grave Business |
| A lurking street urchin by the day |
| Whose conning ways offer a lowly wage |
| So when night falls to the church I turn, to see what treasures I can earn |
| I take my shovel and I take my sack, to see what I can bring me back |
| I rob gold & silver & amber & pearls from your dear beloveds that have left |
| this world |
| I see your face — and then it’s gone without trace |
| I feel I’m losing my sight — haunting life day and night |
| Raven red hair — I have to stop here and stare |
| Your piercing eyes black and cold — the devil’s broken the mould |
| My lamplight casts upon the grave, of magaret erskine |
| A disease ridden dame |
| Friday night she died and was buried in the morn |
| Enriched in jewels, wrapped in fine coths |
| From the earth she comes again |
| Punishing the sins of all men |
| Taking life like taking breath |
| A tortured soul lives on in death |
| I see your face — and then it’s gone without trace |
| I feel I’m losing my sight — haunting life day and night |
| Raven red hair — I have to stop here and stare |
| Your piercing eyes black and cold — the devil’s broken the mould |
| I want that ring I must not linger |
| I can get it off the dead wenchs finger |
| I need to take it to the nearest inn |
| And swap it for a pint of gin |
| A very grave business, no man should witness |
| She walked in the bar all pale and white, it gave me such a massive fright |
| She looked all dead and did quite stink it almost made me drop my drink |
| Excuse me sir but that’s my ring, and now my hand it don’t half sting |
| So the moral now the story’s read, don’t steal bling from off the dead |