City Of Refuge Lyrics - Singles - The Black League

[Original version on the album "Tender Prey" by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds] 

[(C) Dying Art Ltd.] 

You better run You better run and run and run 

You better run You better run 

You better run to the City of Refuge 

You better run You better run 

You better run to the City of Refuge 

You stand before your maker 

In a state of shame 

Bacause your robes are covered in mud 

While your kneel at the feet 

Of a woman of the street 

The gutters will run with blood 

They will run with blood! 

You better run, you better run 

You better run to the City of Refuge 

You better run, you better run 

You better run to the City of Refuge 

In the days of madness 

My brother, my sister 

When you're dragged toward the Hell-mouth 

You will beg at the end 

But there ain't gonna be one, friend 

For the grave will spew you out 

It will spew you out! 

You better run, you better run 

You better run to the City of Refuge 

You better run, you better run 

You better run to the City of Refuge 

You'll be working in the darkness 

Against your fellow man 

And you'll find you're called to come forth 

So you'll scrub and you'll scrub 

But the trouble is, bud 

The blood it won't wash off 

No, it won't come off! 

You better run, you better run 

You better run to the City of Refuge 

You better run, you better run 

You better run and run and run 

You better run to the City of Refuge