| There is a place in hell for you
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| For each minute suffered, for each day survived
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| Paradise lost to heavens and hells
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| Have we emerged as that fallen grace?
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| As adam who casts the first stone
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| As eve who is first raped
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| Sister rise up to take your place
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| Shatter our hearts — rearrange us as one
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| So I may know beauty as well as hate
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| Sister rise up to take your place
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| …and she writhes in tear-stained sheets
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| Through fevered nightmares and whispered screams
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| Gifts of filth from a heaven divine
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| Revealer of secrets and bringer of lies
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| As silently death is companion
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| Through each breath of death she takes
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| Hers is an anguish he can never know or understand
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| Under the shelter of his heaven we dance
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| And await the violations his angels bring
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| In this world that is hell
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| Sister rise up to take your place
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| Shatter our hearts — rearrange us as one
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| So I may know beauty as well as hate
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| Sister rise up to take your place
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| Shatter our hearts and rearrange us as one
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| Have we emerged as that fallen grace?
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| For she who is lost
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| For she who is shamed
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| For she who the world looks black
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| Wonder not whose heaven crushes you
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| When sin and slavery is all that is offered you |