Cover art for X. Litany of Godly Love by Nicholas Lens & Nick Cave

X. Litany of Godly Love

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X. Litany of Godly Love Lyrics

[Nicholas L. Noorenbergh]
I am vengeance and forgiveness
I am everywhere and nowhere at all
I eat children and I gather them to me
I'm a single word and no word at all
Just a single word and no word at all

I am holding you and I need you
I am what is to come, what has been before
I'm both praised and ridiculed
I'm a single word and no word at all
I'm just a single word and no word at all

[Clara-Lane Lens & Nicholas L. Noorenbergh]
And I'm within you and I'm outside you
And I'll watch you die and I'll save you
Am full of language, but do not speak
I am holding you and I need you
I am holding you and I need you
And I'm within you and I'm outside you
And I'll watch you die and I'll save you
Am full of language, but do not speak
I am holding you and I need you
I am holding you and I need you
I need you
[Nicholas L. Noorenbergh]
I am vengeance and forgiveness
I am everywhere and nowhere at all

[Clara-Lane Lens]
I am holding you and I need you

[Nicholas L. Noorenbergh]
I'm a single word and no word at all
I'm just a single word and no word at all

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