Pietà Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Baptized in the shallow end
Of a Holiday Inn
Limbs dangled over my Pa
Like an inverse Pietà
[Chorus]
Mother Nature cried
"You are Leviathan, my child
You are Leviathan inside"
[Verse 2]
And my lungs runneth over
With chlorinated water
And I pleaded with my Pa
But he said, “I can’t carry you no more”
[Chorus]
Mother Nature cried
"You are Leviathan, my child
You are Leviathan inside"
Mother Nature sighed
"What hell is this I made this time?
You are Leviathan in size"
[Verse 3]
Can I make a pet of you?
Dress you up for all the girls
Will I keep you begging now
Or touch you with my gentle words?
Baptized in the shallow end
Of a Holiday Inn
Limbs dangled over my Pa
Like an inverse Pietà
[Chorus]
Mother Nature cried
"You are Leviathan, my child
You are Leviathan inside"
[Verse 2]
And my lungs runneth over
With chlorinated water
And I pleaded with my Pa
But he said, “I can’t carry you no more”
[Chorus]
Mother Nature cried
"You are Leviathan, my child
You are Leviathan inside"
Mother Nature sighed
"What hell is this I made this time?
You are Leviathan in size"
[Verse 3]
Can I make a pet of you?
Dress you up for all the girls
Will I keep you begging now
Or touch you with my gentle words?
[Chorus]
Mother Nature cried
"You are Leviathan, my child
You are Leviathan inside"
Mother Nature sighed
"What hell is this I made this time?
You are Leviathan in size"
Mother Nature cried
"You are Leviathan, my child
You are Leviathan inside"
Mother Nature sighed
"What hell is this I made this time?
You are Leviathan in size"
About
Genius Annotation
“Pietà” was officially released as a 10" on Record Store Day / Black Friday of 2014 along with its B-Side, “Sparrow”. They were recorded in the same sessions as her 2014 eponymous album St. Vincent.
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- 1.Rattlesnake
- 4.Huey Newton
- 7.Regret
- 9.Psychopath
- 12.Bad Believer
- 13.Pietà
- 14.Sparrow
- 15.Del Rio
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Recorded At
Elmwood Recording (Dallas, Texas)
Release Date
November 28, 2014
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