Unfair Ground Lyrics - Broken China - Richard Wright

Woman of custom just severed ties 

What had never changed had always died so 

Suddenly she's opened eyes that 

Fill with tears and come alive 

Her stifled love sleeping forever was 

Unaroused like changeless weather 

And little chance that she was ever 

Going to smash the precious measure 

She never lived with pain, fear or anger 

Windowless and tame like a precious stone langoured 

A heart enchained, willing to surrender 

But now if storms would only blow 

She could really feel the roll. 

Those years of sleep, all waking dreams 

Unpeopled places on painted screens 

And diffused in subdued streams 

Her life was cost, traditional schemes. 

She never lived with pain, fear or anger 

Windowless and tame like a precious stone langoured 

A heart enchained, willing to surrender 

But now if storms would only blow 

Then she could really feel the roll 

She could really feel the roll. 

A hunger that lasts can have no pain 

Its just these words that don't explain. 

Eaten alive and spat out again 

They jam in the memory like ancient remains. 

Woman of custom just severed ties 

What had never changed had always died so 

Suddenly she's opened eyes that 

Fill with tears and come alive.