"Mojo Pin" -Jeff Buckley
(j. buckley/g. lucas)

Well I'm lying in my bed
The blanket is warm
This body will never be safe from harm
Still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal
Touch my skin to keep me whole

If only you'd come back to me
If you laid at my side
I wouldn't need no mojo pin to keep me satisfied

Don't wanna weep for you, I don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty I love you so

Precious, precious silver and gold and pearls in oyster's flesh
Drop down we two to serve and pray to love
Born again from the rhythm screaming down from heaven
Ageless, ageless
I'm there in your arms

Don't wanna weep for you, I don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty I love you so
So, so...

The welts of your scorn, my love, give me more
Send whips of opinion down my back, give me more
Well it's you I've waited my life to see
It's you I've searched so hard for...

Don't wanna weep for you, I don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty I love you so
So, black black black black beauty...

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haunting, this song has the power to possess and reach deep inside where one is afraid to venture herself. it grabs hold of that little thing inside which holds your soul and sings to it.

they say music is very powerful. i say its everything.

jeff buckley,
its a shame you are no more with us,
"genius" is a word too humble to describe you.
bits and pieces of your soul trapped in your compositions,
you have been rendered immortal
to all mankind.

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