Hell-on Lyrics - Neko Case

God is not a contract 

Or a guy 

God is an unspecified tide 

You cannot time it's tables 

It sets no glass or gables 

God is 

A lusty tire fire 

It's bristles scrape and strike the stage 

Rock, paper, scissors, rage.. 

Have mercy on the natural world 

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My voice is not 

The liquid waves 

The perfect rings round a heron's legs.. 

My voice a straight garroting wire 

A stolen mile of fingerprints 

Peeled up quiet from their dunes 

Captured and respooled as ruin 

To be used 

At a different time 

My voice is a fracture 

Of a shin bone's lust 

Pounding barefoot ground 

It lifts you up and sets you just.. 

Just at sorrow's waterline 

I drape you on tomorrow's plate 

Ferrous, metal marrow spilling 

Not yours, but mine. 

iI'm an agent 

Of the natural word 

Photos 

Don't you tell me 

I didn't warn you 

That that's some gravity 

You ought not to play with 

Don't you tell me 

I didn't warn you 

That that's some gravity 

You ought not to play with 

There's nothing quite so poison 

As a promise 

There's nothing quite so poison 

As a promise 

There's nothing quite so poison 

As a promise 

There's nothing quite so poison 

As a promise 

And me? 

I am not a mess 

I'm a wilderness, yes. 

The undiscovered continent 

For you to undress 

But you'll not be my master 

You're barely my guest 

You don't have permission 

To take any pictures 

Be careful 

Of the natural world 

Nature can't amend it's ways 

It boils hell-on and then replays 

Despite heartfelt springtimes of regret 

The storm she still cries for days 

Have mercy on the natural world