Santies Lyrics - John Cale

She was so afraid 

Since her mother, white with time, 

Told her 

She was a failure 

She was so ashamed 

Of everything she said 

And everything she did 

For her mother, white with time 

Everything around her mother 

White with time 

And dirty 

Her mother was greedy with dirt 

Greedy 

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Then she heard choirs of angels 

Singing choirs of angels 

Greedy angels 

Spitting glory on her failure 

That stardust of failure 

As if it was medicine that didn't work 

Any way 

Anyway 

The windows 

They were closed 

And the midwives had locked their doors 

They didn't understand 

And after all, what was there to understand? 

But the angels 

Sheer choirs of angels 

In a friendship 

No, more than a friendship 

It was a marriage 

A marriage made in the grave 

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In the shivering night 

The searching of the river continued 

That bullet of searchlight 

That searchlight 

Found her so cockleshell and sure 

Sick and tired of what she saw 

But cockleshell and sure 

Sure of what the world had offered a tired soul 

From istanbul to madrid 

From reykjavik, to bonn 

To leipzig, to leningrad 

To shanghai, pnonm penh 

All so that it would be a stronger world 

A strong, though loving, world 

To die in