Nine

Song Nine
Artist Patti Smith
Album Banga

Lyrics

[ti:Nine]
[ar:Patti Smith]
[00:17.26] Night a nine of diamonds
[00:21.15] A woman lay and cries
[00:26.09] At the sister of Mercy
[00:30.31] On a Sabbath day
[00:35.29] Night a nine of diamonds
[00:39.81] As revelers commence
[00:44.12] To shiver as she bore
[00:48.52] In a babe,a radiance
[00:56.43] Brave in constant motion
[01:00.55] Wherein perfection brews
[01:05.18] Darkness as his brother
[01:09.82] Mischief as his moon
[01:14.67] Summoning beneath
[01:18.74] With his gypsy moves
[01:23.78] Yearning as the foal
[01:28.15] So shy and beautiful
[01:39.96] Every card he drew
[01:44.08] Had a different face
[01:48.80] Lingering and lost
[01:53.33] Unholy holy ghosts
[02:00.26] I tend to play them all
[02:04.63] He spoke with confidence
[02:09.06] Another kind of strange
[02:13.80] To shift in loneliness
[02:20.97] He sought not for himself
[02:25.16] The empire he would find
[02:29.98] Save the golden womb
[02:34.41] He enters in his mind
[03:58.47] We will die a littler
[04:03.71] The rogues whistling
[04:09.78] Nine blue-eyed sailors
[04:15.33] Tip their caps to him
[04:21.68] As he passes through them
[04:27.44] More vagabond than king
[04:33.41] With diamonds on his sleeves
[04:39.87] Like a harlequin