Lorraine Lyrics - Jim Carroll

Seven blonde women 

They gather in the square 

They raise their hands up to the sun 

Their skin is so thin and white 

You know their fathers must surely be wealthy 

I watch the others stand around and form a crucifix 

A serpent of vapor 

Some stray birds rise 

The one on the end, the fine one on the end 

She called me over, she pulled me aside 

She said, you know, I have to make it all look different 

It seems that every time I lay down 

On it, and it's like a snake in water 

And when I look out of it, 

It's like the one from last week 

Was breathing again 

And she said she had some white light 

You know, she said that she had some morphine 

But she didn't have no gimmicks 

So she just took this razor 

And she laid it on a white vein 

And then she took a black orchid 

And she just ripped apart that flower 

And then she took the white light 

Then she said, hey, later for the morphine 

She took the razor and slit open her white vein 

She slit open her white vein 

She put the flower through the slit vein 

She poured the white light through the red stem 

She put the white light through the red stem 

She just poured it through the red stem 

I was talking with my angel 

I was talking with my angel then . . . 

I was underneath the staircase 

I was talking with my angel 

He said that beauty is only terror 

You know when terror is just beginning 

I thought I heard some footsteps 

You know Lorraine, she was coming 

She'd been feeling real sick lately 

She had been kicking down her habit 

I went around to see her 

I had the angel in my pocket 

She had jewels between her fingers 

And there was blood across Lou's carpet 

I know that she's feeling better 

I saw her walking down to the market 

She went down 

The sharp black hole 

She wants to die just to save her soul 

But she wants to live 

She wants to start her band 

She swears the stage is God's left hand 

I'm sitting in the cellar 

Beneath my dark apartment 

I had the angel on my shoulder 

You know, his wings they were kinda shattered 

He plays with broken mirrors 

And he said that he just saw Sally 

And that Sally was with Lorraine 

And they were playing in the alley 

So I went around to see them 

Ahhh . . . they were doing it together 

And there was a little blood along the concrete 

I know they were feeling better 

They got straight 

They understand 

They wanted to die but now they got plans 

They want to live; they want to start their band 

They swear the stage is God's left hand 

I'm waiting in the lobby now 

The angel dropped the mirror 

But he still insists that beauty 

That beauty is just one part of terror 

There's a painting on the ceiling 

Of a dog . . . he had eyes like rubies, 

And then the angel just remembered 

That Lorraine was at the movies 

I found her in the back aisle 

There was blood across the next seat 

When she reached out to touch me 

I thought that that that was so sweet 

So I stuck her with my finger 

It was like a knife through leather 

She had a song along her eyelids 

I KNOW she was feeling better 

She got straight 

She understand 

She wanted to die but now she got plans 

She want to live 

She want to start her band 

She swear the stage is God's left hand 

Lorraine